The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Scenes Tell Mini-Stories

May 9, 2018
Here’s how you can tell if a scene is working. Does your scene tell a mini-story with characters striving for a goal and then achieving...
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Consider Anything But Screenwriting

May 6, 2018
Look at some of the latest movies and you’ll notice a trend. Almost none of them are based on original screenplays. If they are based...
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Make Things Bad, Then Make Them Worse

May 3, 2018
In every scene, you need escalating conflict. This keeps the audience’s attention because at first, something important is at stake. Then things get much worse...
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Stretch Emotions to the Extreme

April 30, 2018
There’s an Australian stop action film called “Mary and Max,” which is about a lonely 8-year old Australian girl named Mary who’s raised by an...
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Emotional or Physical Change in Every Scene

April 27, 2018
Every scene needs to change the story. If a scene doesn’t change this tory in any way, it’s redundant and needs to be cut. If...
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Creating an Emotional Ending

April 24, 2018
In bad movies, the ending is nothing but pure action. Watch a lousy movie like “The Net” where the hero hits the villain in the...
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Let the Audience Experience Triumph

April 21, 2018
In a bad action movie, the villain ties the hero to a chair in a locked room and pumps the room full of poison gas....
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Even Villains Have Problems

April 18, 2018
The stereotypical villain twirls his mustache while wearing all black clothes and cackling with laughter as he pursues his evil goal. Such all-evil villains are...
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Make Every Character Flawed and Appealing

April 14, 2018
One-dimensional characters are boring precisely because they’re either completely good or completely bad. Watch a bad James Bond movie (such as “A View to a...
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Learning Storytelling Techniques From Pixar

April 11, 2018
Pixar has created some of the best movies in the past few decades. Although they’ve had a few misfires (“Cars 2” and “The Good Dinosaur”), even...
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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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