The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Studying Great Movies

June 18, 2014
For my own curiosity, I decided to study several popular movies and analyze them to see what made them work. Although every script is different,...
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Gradual Deterioration

June 9, 2014
Here are two ways to make a boring story. First, create a problem. Second, solve the problem right away. That’s boring because there’s no suspense...
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Showing vs. Telling

June 8, 2014
Sometimes the beginning of a movie needs to give the audience information about the story before the story even begins. “Star Wars” did this in...
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Make Things Worse

June 5, 2014
The opening of your screenplay should grab the audience’s attention and make them wonder what’s going to happen next. In Act II, this is where...
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Why Movies Drag

May 31, 2014
Sometimes you can watch a three hour movie and by the time it ends, you don’t even realize how much time has passed. Other times...
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Phrasing Your Theme as a Question

May 24, 2014
Movies without a theme tend to be directionless and short-sighted where every scene tries to do something, but without the unifying goal of a theme,...
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Studying the Seriousness Behind Comedies

May 22, 2014
Comedies are often dismissed as less than serious stories, but if you look beyond the laughs, comedies typically contain serious stories. In “The 40-Year Old...
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The Deadlines in “Gravity”

May 20, 2014
“Gravity” is a visually stunning picture but from a story perspective, it focuses mostly on external threats. By studying “Gravity,” you can see how external...
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Something Happens

May 17, 2014
Stories are never direct. In a romantic comedy, boy meets girl, but it never ends that way. Instead the basic formula is boy meets girl,...
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The Three I’s of Comedy

May 16, 2014
The book “Writing the Comedy Blockbuster” lists three I’s that are important in a comedy. The first I is Inappropriate Goals. When your hero starts...
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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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