The 15 Minute Movie Method

June 2024

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How to Use Narration to Delivery Crucial Information

June 30, 2024
Narration occurs when a character or unseen person tells the audience important information to help them understand the story. Narration typically appears in the beginning...
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The Number One Reason Why Most People Write Scenes That Don’t Work

June 26, 2024
This is the way far too many people write a screenplay. They come up with a rough idea and before they know what the complete...
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Create Greater Drama in Scenes Through Contrast and Reversals

June 22, 2024
Most people write boring scenes where characters get along and nothing changes from the beginning of the scene to the end. So the solution is...
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Conflict Exists Solely to Force the Hero to Choose

June 18, 2024
Watch a bad movie and you’ll see lots of conflict involving physical fighting, car crashes, explosions, and gunfire. Yet, you may sill feel bored because...
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Show Us the Worst That Could Happen to the Hero

June 14, 2024
In every story, two things must be crystal clear: We must know what the hero wants right from the beginning, even if that desire may...
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Introduce the Villain’s Power Right Away

June 10, 2024
Every story needs a villain. Sometimes there’s just a series of villains the hero must overcome but sometimes there’s a single villain who drives the...
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Tell a Great Story by Creating Greater Contrast

June 6, 2024
Far too many writers play it safe by telling mild stories where nothing bad really happens to the hero but nothing outrageous does either. This...
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Introducing the Mentor as Someone Seemingly Useless

June 2, 2024
No hero can succeed on their own. The only way a hero can succeed is through the guidance of a mentor. Ideally, this mentor should...
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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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