The 15 Minute Movie Method

March 2019

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Tell One Story (Over and Over Again)

March 29, 2019
Good movies always tell one story. Any subplots basically echo that one story in different ways. By telling one story in multiple ways, the overall...
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One Goal Every 15 Minutes

March 25, 2019
Screenplays are highly structured because they have a limited amount of time to tell a story. While novels can go off on tangents, screenplays (and...
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The Emotional Logline

March 21, 2019
Many screenwriters create a longline that summarizes the basics of the story in one or two sentences. This longline can be used to pitch an...
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The Twist in the Middle of the Story

March 18, 2019
What novice screenwriters typically do is start with the bare bones of an idea and then immediately start writing. This inevitably leads to a screenplay...
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Tell One Story

March 14, 2019
If you listen to music, you’ll notice every good song repeats parts over and over again. Stories are the same way. What’s deceptive about story...
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Following the Symbol of Hope

March 11, 2019
Take a two hour movie and divide it into equal 30-minute segments and you have four acts. Overall, you always have a single goal posed...
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Make the Audience the Hero

March 7, 2019
Why do you like watching old movies that you’ve already seen and know the plot by heart? It’s not to see special effects or watch...
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The Outer and Inner Goals

March 4, 2019
Every story has two major goals. The outer goal is what’s defined in Act I and resolved in Act III. The inner goal is what’s...
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The Hero’s Final Emotional Change, Part III

March 1, 2019
Throughout the story, the hero gradually changes. In Act I, the hero starts changing from someone trapped in a dead end life of their own...
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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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