September, 2020 - The 15 Minute Movie Method

Create Inherent Conflict in the Story

September 30, 2020

Ask many novice screenwriters what their story is about and you’ll often get a vague description that their story is about a woman searching for...

Creating Irony in Act II

September 27, 2020

In every screenplay, the first 30 minutes contain exposition that explains what the story its about and what the hero wants to achieve. Then in...

Based on a True Story: the Origin of a Plot

September 24, 2020

Everyone has ideas for a screenplay. The hard part is coming up with interesting ideas that will grab people’s attention. One simple technique for doing...

Borrowing Plots From Foreign Films

September 22, 2020

Coming up with a new story is difficult. That’s why Hollywood often looks to foreign movies and borrow existing plots and characters to create a...

Borrow Plots and Focus on Your Story

September 14, 2020

Here’s the hard way to write a story. Come up with an interesting plot and then come up with interesting characters and situations. Here’s the...

Creating a Contained Story

September 11, 2020

With movie theaters largely empty and the coronavirus pandemic keeping everyone separate and isolated, the movie industry has changed drastically in ways that it may...

Study Bad Movies Based on Popular Novels

September 5, 2020

Any time there’s a popular novel, Hollywood wants to turn it into a movie. More often than not, the movie fails to match the book....

Irony Creates Conflict

September 2, 2020

To create greater conflict in any tory, use irony because irony makes events and situations more dramatic. Think of the big reveal in “The Empire...

The 15 Minute Movie Method

September 2020