“Pamela Jaye Smith is the world’s foremost authority on mythology in screenwriting and filmmaking.”
Dr. Linda Seger –author 9 books on screenwriting, script consultant, international speaker
Take your project to the next level with timeless story-tools of MYTHIC THEMES, ARCHETYPES, and SYMBOLS. Mythic Tools add depth, excitement, and global recognition to whatever you are doing, in anygenre, any style.
~~ Mythic Tools Consultation – analyze your creative project and help you align it with powerful Mythic Themes, Archetypes, and Symbols. Make it more global while keeping it true to your particular vision.
~~ Marketing Materials – proposals, synopses, and treatments from your works. Pitch materials – Logline, 3 Sentence Pitch, 3 Paragraph Synopsis for “leave-behinds” at pitchfests.
~~ Writer – rewrites/polish on your screenplay; writing a screenplay from your novel, treatment, or ideas. Credited or ghosted.
~~ Myth Expert – for your movie, TV series, webseries. Clients include “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, Microsoft’s “Age of Mythology” game, and Director Wes Craven “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” [Nightmare on Elm Street VII] and “Vampire in Brooklyn”.
~~ Research – MYTHWORKS has experts in myth, magic, military, metaphysics, Freemasonry, and general research.
SERVICES:
COVERAGE
Read your screenplay (up to 120 pages, standard format) or your manuscript (up to 300 double-spaced pages).
Standard studio style coverage that includes Logline, Rating Table, Synopsis of the work, and analyses in the following areas: Overall, Characters, Structure, Stakes, Conflict, Believability, Dialogue, Other, Budget, and Grade (Recommend, Recommend with Changes, Pass).
Additional pages, screenplay or manuscript @ $1 (one dollar) per page.
Printed books, up to 200 pages add $200; over 200 pages please contact for rates.
Turnaround time 2-3 weeks.? Rush fee: Add one-third of total price.
FEE: $300
WRITER’S QUICK-MYTH BRAIN-STORMING PLAN
Helps solidify your inspiration and sort all those great ideas into a workable form.
Identifies your project's MYTH(s)
Protagonist & Antagonist Archetypes
Major Symbol(s)
Supplies you with suggested reading, viewing & research
One-hour phone or in-person consultation
FEE $300
PITCH MATERIALS
STANDARD STORY CONSULTATION
Notes directly on the pages of your script or manuscript + additional pages of notes.
Story, structure, plot, characters, dialogue, symbols, imagery, plus…
MYTHIC THEME & EXAMPLES: ?Identifies and aligns your unique story with timeless concepts
6 MAJOR PLOT POINTS: [what should happen when] and suggestions for aligning your story with this mythic content & structure
PROTAGONIST & ANTAGONIST CHARACTER ARCHETYPES
SYMBOLS & IMAGES: analysis of effectiveness + further suggestions
Additional Mythic Info
Filmography & Bibliography
?1-Hour Phone Consultation
FEE $750
WRITER’S PLAN #1
Notes directly on the pages of your script or manuscript + additional pages of notes.
Story, structure, plot, characters, dialogue, symbols, imagery, plus…
Mythic Theme & Examples
Identifies and aligns your unique story with timeless concepts
10 MAJOR PLOT POINTS: [what should happen when] and suggestions for aligning your story with this mythic content & structure
3 Main Character Archetypes & Profiles: ?Mythic Archetype & back-story?. Goals, Barriers, Hopes, Fears, Strengths, Weaknesses, Styles of Speech, Symbols
Character Triangles of Assistance & Resistance: ?what helps them, what hinders them — for dramatic conflict
Additional Mythic Info
Filmography & Bibliography
2-Hour Phone ConsultationFEE: $1,000
WRITER’S PLAN #2
Notes directly on the pages of your script or manuscript + additional pages of notes.
Story, structure, plot, characters, dialogue, symbols, imagery, plus…
Mythic Theme & Examples
1) Main Theme &? 2) Subplot
15 Major Plot Points ?for both the Theme & Subplot
6 Character Archetypes & Profiles
Triangles of Assistance & Resistance: 6 Characters & 5 Major Plot Points
Additional Mythic Info
Filmography & Bibliography
3-Hour Phone ConsultationFEE: $1,500
WRITER’S PLAN #3
Notes directly on the pages of your script or manuscript + additional pages of notes.
Story, structure, plot, characters, dialogue, symbols, imagery, plus…
Mythic Theme & Examples
1) Main Theme &? 2) Subplot
20 Major Plot Points ?for both the Theme & Subplot
10 Character Archetypes & Profiles
Triangles of Assistance & Resistance: 10 Characters & 10 Major Plot Points
Additional Mythic Info
Filmography & Bibliography
3-Hour Phone ConsultationFEE: $2500
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