The 15 Minute Movie Method

April 2018

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Stretch Emotions to the Extreme

April 30, 2018
There’s an Australian stop action film called “Mary and Max,” which is about a lonely 8-year old Australian girl named Mary who’s raised by an...
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Emotional or Physical Change in Every Scene

April 27, 2018
Every scene needs to change the story. If a scene doesn’t change this tory in any way, it’s redundant and needs to be cut. If...
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Creating an Emotional Ending

April 24, 2018
In bad movies, the ending is nothing but pure action. Watch a lousy movie like “The Net” where the hero hits the villain in the...
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Let the Audience Experience Triumph

April 21, 2018
In a bad action movie, the villain ties the hero to a chair in a locked room and pumps the room full of poison gas....
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Even Villains Have Problems

April 18, 2018
The stereotypical villain twirls his mustache while wearing all black clothes and cackling with laughter as he pursues his evil goal. Such all-evil villains are...
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Make Every Character Flawed and Appealing

April 14, 2018
One-dimensional characters are boring precisely because they’re either completely good or completely bad. Watch a bad James Bond movie (such as “A View to a...
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Learning Storytelling Techniques From Pixar

April 11, 2018
Pixar has created some of the best movies in the past few decades. Although they’ve had a few misfires (“Cars 2” and “The Good Dinosaur”), even...
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Make a Goal Mysterious

April 8, 2018
Either the hero’s goal or the villain’s goal needs to be mysterious. That’s because every story is really a puzzle for the audience to figure...
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The Big Challenge to the Hero

April 5, 2018
Action movies focus on explosions, car crashes, and gunfire. However, all that action is meaningless if there’s nothing behind the hero. Nobody really watches action...
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The Meaning Behind the Action

April 2, 2018
Far too many movies focus on action and forget about the human element behind that action. Specifically, we want to know how all this action...
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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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