The 15 Minute Movie Method

November 2017

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The Emotional Structure of Stories (Part I)

November 28, 2017
The best stories tell both an interesting story while also showing how a hero changes emotionally into a better person (or in tragedies, into a...
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Creating Multi-Purpose Scenes

November 25, 2017
Watch a bad movie like “Justice League” and you’ll see a perfect example of a pointless scene. Early in the movie, “Justice League” shows Wonder...
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Endless Exposition

November 21, 2017
DC Comics movies seem to have the same problem. Watch “Suicide Squad” or “Justice League” and you’ll notice that the movie starts off slowly and...
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Make Every Scene Interesting

November 18, 2017
Every scene needs to be interesting in some way to keep the story moving forward. The simplest way to make a scene interesting is to...
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Stories Are Nothing Without Humanity

November 15, 2017
The best stories are those that move us emotionally, and the only way that can happen is if the hero changes emotionally. If the hero...
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Change a Relationship in a Scene

November 12, 2017
Every scene must be interesting and hold the audience’s attention. Any scene that fails to do so simply hurts the overall screenplay. One way to...
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Forcing the Hero to Change From Two Directions

November 9, 2017
The purpose of the villain and mentor is to change the hero. The mentor offers positive lessons to help the hero learn a different way...
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Plot vs. Relationship

November 6, 2017
Every story has a plot. The plot basically defines what happens to a character such as the hero. However, what’s far more important is who...
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Create a Relationship Triangle

November 2, 2017
What really creates added tension and suspense isn’t more violence, sex, or special effects, but relationship triangles. This occurs when two people want something from...
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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.

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