The 15 Minute Movie Method

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The Backstory

September 3, 2014
If you read most books on writing a novel, they suggest you create a backstory for your characters. The main point of any backstory isn’t...
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Action and Reaction

September 1, 2014
When plotting your story, always think of action and reaction. That means something interesting happens and then something else happens as a result. This constant...
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‘What Makes a Classic Movie?’

August 31, 2014
Every weekend Hollywood trots out their latest movies and every weekend, a large majority of those movies aren’t very good. Rather than try to find...
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Neurocinematics

August 27, 2014
Here’s something to keep your eye on. It’s a new term called neurocinematics where moviemakers use neurofeedback to help refine film elements such as scripts,...
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Eliminate Characters Who Never Change

August 23, 2014
The surest sign of a mediocre movie is when secondary characters don’t change. In “Maleficent,” then fairies guarding Sleeping Beauty never change and Sleeping Beauty...
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Action With Emotion

August 22, 2014
Watch a mediocre movie like any of “The Expendables” trilogy and you’ll see lots of explosions and gunfire with nobody getting cut. “The Expendables” is...
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Show Your Hero as Vulnerable

August 21, 2014
One of the best ways to make a character feel real is to show them in a vulnerable situation. In “Guardians of the Galaxy,” Rocket...
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Keep Putting on the Pressure

August 18, 2014
There’s an old saying about story telling where you put your hero in a tree and then throw rocks at him (or her). The basic...
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The Traumatic vs. Unresolved Past

August 16, 2014
The past always causes problems for the hero. Every story is about the hero trying to fix his or her life due to a problem...
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The Two P’s: The Past and the Parallel

August 15, 2014
Study the best movies and you’ll notice they include two P’s: the past and a parallel story. The past has created a problem that 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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