Story Structure

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Anatomy of a Bad Movie

April 22, 2012

It’s easy to find examples of great screenplays. “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “The Godfather.” However, it’s also easy to find bad movies too. Since you can...

What Isn’t Seen

April 17, 2012

What you see in a movie isn’t what was written. In fact, movies often cut out scenes that were written and filmed, but later deemed...

The Classic Three Act Structure

April 11, 2012

Every movie tells a story and every story follows a basic structure known as the three Act structure. By understanding this basic structure, you can...

Telling vs. Showing

April 3, 2012

A movie tells a story visually. Where many movies fail is when they forget this basic idea and rely too much on telling rather than...

Everything Must be Interesting

March 30, 2012

What makes a movie suck? Look back at the movies you disliked and at some point the movie lost your interest. Here are some of...

Nowhere to Go But Up

March 21, 2012

Every story begins with the hero in less than ideal circumstances. Think of fairy tales where Hansel and Gretel are in a home where the...

What Happens Next?

March 17, 2012

To keep your audience on the edge of their seats, give them a cliff-hanger — literally. Early movies were called cliff hangers because each segment...

Stories Are All About Solving Problems

March 9, 2012

What makes a bad movie? How about the lack of problems for the hero to solve? When most people think about their favorite movies, they...

The Hero Must Be a Leader

March 3, 2012

Everybody follows a leader. Nobody follows a couch potato. If you want an audience to follow your story, make your hero into a leader, not...

Twilight Zone Guidelines

February 28, 2012

The classic television show “The Twilight Zone” had specific guidelines to insure the quality of its stories. Surprisingly, these guidelines can still be applicable to...

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.