September 2012

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The Four Part Structure of a Story

September 29, 2012

Every story follows a similar structure just as every car follows a similar form. That doesn’t mean that you can create stories using a fixed...

The Sixth 15 Minutes

September 23, 2012

The sixth 15-minute segment of a story is where the hero is on the defensive and makes the end of Act II. The sixth segment...

Set Up and Payoff

September 19, 2012

What makes a movie good or bad isn’t the story, the plot, the actors, or the setting. What makes a good story is setting up...

‘The Seventh 15 Minutes

September 12, 2012

Act III is all about confrontation with the villain. However, you can’t just throw the hero and the villain together right away. Instead, you have...

The Eighth 15 Minutes

September 7, 2012

The final part of your movie is what people will remember the most. You have to give the audience a satisfying, yet surprising ending. Whatever...

Making Your Hero Likable

September 2, 2012

The one key to every movie is that the audience must like your hero. They may not agree with the hero or even accept his...

About Wallace Wang

First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.

The 15 Minute Movie Method