The 15 Minute Movie Method

June 2020

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Scenes Need Two Stories at Once

June 30, 2020
Read screenplays and you’ll notice one thing. Every scene typically has two things going on at once. If a scene fails to include two stories,...
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Solve One Problem Multiple Ways

June 27, 2020
When many people start writing a story, they quickly lose focus and wind up writing themselves into a dead end where they have no idea...
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How to Add Surprise in Every Scene

June 24, 2020
The purpose of a scene is to move the story along. However, the only way a scene can move the story along is if it...
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Practicing Writing Screenplays

June 21, 2020
The hardest part about writing a screenplay is that you have to write a script and come up with a story. Far too many people...
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Action, Appearance, and Setting

June 18, 2020
Watch any silent movie and you can figure out the story just by seeing the action alone. That’s the way all screenplays work. Action is...
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Everything Conspires Against the Hero

June 13, 2020
If you remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, occasionally a character would face a dilemma and that’s when an angel and a devil would pop up...
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Subtext in Dialogue

June 10, 2020
In real life, people rarely say exactly what’s on their mind. Imagine the following scene in a romance: MAN: I love you. WOMAN: I love...
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Creating a Fully Dimensional Scene

June 7, 2020
Watch a stage play and the story is told mainly through dialogue with physical action secondary. Then watch a movie and the story is told...
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The Triangle Method of Writing a Scene

June 4, 2020
What happens when most people write a scene? Ideally, the scene should contain two characters in conflict. One character wants one thing and the other...
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Learning About a Character

June 1, 2020
The weakest way to reveal any character is to have that character come right out and tell the audience, “I’m unhappy” or “I feel too...
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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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