The 15 Minute Movie Method

August 2019

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The Story (and the Real Story)

August 30, 2019
Surprise is the key to holding your audience’s attention. That means you need to entice the audience with what appears to be the story, then...
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The Mind and the Heart

August 27, 2019
Every character, especially the hero, has two goals driven by the mind and the heart. The mind tells the character what he or she wants...
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Writing Dialogue

August 24, 2019
The most common mistake in writing dialogue is making every character sound alike. The second most common mistake is making dialogue boring. So to fix...
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Keep Your Hero Active, Not Passive

August 21, 2019
Active heroes are responsible for their own fate. That means they take action to put themselves in dire situations, but then take more action to...
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Making a Scene Interesting

August 18, 2019
Every scene must be interesting or else you risk losing your audience. A dull scene can wreck the best story so it’s important to make...
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Story Fractals with Four Big Goals

August 15, 2019
Fractals are mathematical images that are composed of identical images that form much larger images. Stories are the same way. The overall story has a...
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The YA (Young Adult) Story Formula

August 12, 2019
Ever since “The Hunger Games” came out and become a worldwide phenomena, Hollywood has been trying to duplicate that success over and over again with...
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Contrast = Visual Interest

August 9, 2019
Every scene needs conflict. To enhance conflict or to make a scene more visually interesting if there’s little conflict, use contrast. Contrast makes everything appear...
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Conflict is Never Random

August 6, 2019
To make any story interesting, you need conflict. However, bad movies simply toss all types of conflict in a story, most of which makes no...
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What’s the Emotion in Your Story?

August 3, 2019
The horror genre is the easiest to study for emotional impact because horror movies strive to create fear and horror in the minds of the...
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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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