The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Begin at the Beginning

January 6, 2011
The beginning of your movie is your first impression to the audience. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so make...
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What Are You Trying to Do?

January 2, 2011
This is the way many people write a screenplay. They buy a screenplay formatting program like Final Draft then start writing. This is like buying...
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Learning From the Hardy Boys

December 27, 2010
The simplest way to understand story structure is to study children’s stories, since this makes it easy to see how a story works. To see...
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Goal Directed Segments

December 21, 2010
What gets a movie going and keeps it going are goals. Your hero needs a big goal that drives your story forward, but he (or...
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Why Bad Movies Flop

December 15, 2010
It’s easy to see why bad movies flop. It’s usually because the story is dull, confusing, or so unrealistic that nobody can take it seriously,...
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Caring

December 9, 2010
What’s the difference between a great movie and a good one? With a good movie, you remain detached and unemotionally involved. With a great movie,...
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The 7 Minute Division

December 3, 2010
Trying to write an entire two hour, 120-page screenplay is a daunting task, so the secret is to break it into more manageable parts. A...
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Watching Old Movies

November 27, 2010
Many aspiring screenwriters watch the latest releases and then get influenced by them. The drawback is that they tend to churn out scripts that are...
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The Four-Part Story Structure

November 22, 2010
Screenplays aren’t divided into three Acts, but four. Each Act tells a mini-story all by itself which strung together creates a coherent whole. In outlining...
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The True Meaning of Horror

November 16, 2010
Today’s movies seem to rely too heavily on special effects, which act like fireworks to capture the audience’s attention through sheer pyrotechnics. But after these...
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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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