The 15 Minute Movie Method

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The Hero’s Final Emotional Change, Part III

March 1, 2019
Throughout the story, the hero gradually changes. In Act I, the hero starts changing from someone trapped in a dead end life of their own...
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Forcing the Hero to Change Emotionally, Part IIb

February 26, 2019
In Act I (the first 30 minutes), the hero is stuck in a dead end life and gains hope when the villain inadvertently sends a...
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Every Scene Should Change Someone’s Life

February 23, 2019
What’s exciting to watch? Two people sitting at a table doing nothing or two people sitting at a table, arguing, then making up and leaving...
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Resisting Emotional Change, Part IIa

February 20, 2019
In Act I (the first 30 minutes of a two hour movie), the hero has an unresolved emotional problem: The hero is stuck in a...
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The Four Stages of Emotional Change, Part I

February 17, 2019
Every good story is really about emotional change. Forget about all the special effects and action. Without an underlying emotional story, more car crashes, gunfire,...
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Make the Motivation Clear

February 13, 2019
In a bad movie, things seem to happen for no apparent reason. When the reason behind the plot doesn’t make sense, then the story is...
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Change and Conflict

February 10, 2019
In every scene, you need emotional change and conflict. Emotional change means that a main character is somehow different from the beginning of a scene...
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The Emotional Story is Foundation of a Good Story

February 7, 2019
There are two zombie movies that make fun of a potential zombie apocalypse: “Shaun of the Dead” and “Anna and the Apocalypse.” Although both movies...
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Put Emotion in Every Scene

February 4, 2019
Musicals tell a story through song, but the songs they sing are no different than ordinary dialogue in a scene. Songs, like dialogue in a...
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Every Scene Needs to Show Emotional Change

February 1, 2019
The reason people watch movies like “Star Wars” or “Titanic” over and over again isn’t because they want to see the Death Star blow up...
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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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