The 15 Minute Movie Method

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The Seriousness of Comedy

May 10, 2014
Even the Academy Awards dismiss comedies as frivolous entertainment, yet the best comedies often have an important point to make. In “American Pie,” the story...
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Every Scene is Conflict

May 9, 2014
What makes any story interesting is conflict. Put a bunch of characters in a room and have them agree makes for a boring story. If...
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Lessons From Soap Operas

May 6, 2014
If you’ve ever gotten hooked on a soap opera, you know how they can hold your attention for weeks, months, or even years. There are...
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Analyzing “Argo”

May 2, 2014
“Argo” is a fictionalized version of real events that took place when the Canadian embassy helped six Americans escape during the Iranian revolution. The actual events...
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Fast vs. Slow

April 29, 2014
The pace of some movies just seems to drag to a crawl while the pace of a great three hour long movie can rush by...
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The Elements of a Great Script

April 28, 2014
Technically a scene is anything that defines a location and some type of action. You don’t want to focus on writing scenes. What you really...
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The How and Why of the Mystery

April 27, 2014
Every story has a mystery that drops hints along the way until we finally understand what’s going on. If we know too much too soon,...
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Analyzing Mini-Stories

April 20, 2014
In every movie, there are mini-stories that follow the four-part structure of stories like this: An attention-grabber highlights some problem that the characters face The...
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Nobody Knows Anything

April 15, 2014
“The Economist” recently wrote about the flops that Hollywood produced and how nobody still knows what will make a hit. The big problem with Hollywood...
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Introduce Two or More Subplots Simultaneously

April 14, 2014
One huge problem with novice screenplays is that they start an interesting scene and then end it. Then they start a different scene and then...
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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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