The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Dialogue is Spoken Action

December 13, 2015
There’s a reason why characters speak and it’s never to give out information to the audience, although that’s the side effect. The main reason characters...
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Bonding with the Emotional Change of the Hero

December 10, 2015
All the action in the world means nothing if nobody cares about your hero. So how do you make your hero sympathetic? You do it...
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The Hero is Someone Special

December 4, 2015
Your hero usually starts off as a nobody and winds up as someone special in the end. You can see this transition from zero to...
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The First 15 Minutes

December 2, 2015
Watch the first 15 minutes of any movie and then stop. If the story is structured correctly, you should have hints of how the movie...
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The Rule of Three

November 27, 2015
What makes a bad movie is when something appears out of nowhere to help the hero. It’s okay to have something appear out of nowhere...
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One Theme

November 23, 2015
Stories without a theme might be entertaining and they can even be extremely profitable as well. The problem is that they’re often entirely forgettable a...
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Reality vs. Storytelling

November 21, 2015
Reality is boring. That’s why reality TV shows often fake the drama by showing you only the most dramatic moments or having people pretend to...
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Make Action Meaningful

November 20, 2015
There’s a huge difference between meaningful action and pointless action. Pointless action wastes time with explosions and gunfire with lots of obstacles happening but little...
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Show Us a New World

November 18, 2015
In big budget movies, it’s easy to show a new world such as the alien landscape in “Avatar” or the world of superheroes in “The...
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Make the Goals Crystal Clear

November 13, 2015
Nothing makes a movie seem dull and drag on than unclear goals for both the villain and the hero. If we don’t know what 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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