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Pamela Jaye Smith

PAMELA JAYE SMITH is an Author, international Consultant, Speaker, and award-winning Producer/Director with over 30 years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, corporate, military films, and games.

Smith authored THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: Create Great Villains and Dangerous Situations, INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Using the 8 Classic Centers of Motivation, and SYMBOLS, IMAGES & CODES: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media.

She has appeared on national TV and radio programs as a mythology expert, including the “Forbidden Secrets” TV series. She was the on-camera spokesperson for Microsoft’s “Age of Mythology” on-line computer game and designed their "Which God Are You?" quiz.

Pamela helps creative people enhance their stories and scripts with the power of myth using themes, symbols, and imagery. She also brings the insights and effectiveness of archetypes to storytellers’ character development. Besides the standards, she specializes in myth, metaphyics, the military, and Masonry. These classic tools work for any style and any genre, in any stage of development -- plus, they’re fun to use.

Clients and credits include Microsoft, Disney, Paramount, Columbia-Sony, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Thot Fiction Marseille France, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, Pepperdine University, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, and various film festi vals and story conferences. Others include the American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, General Motors, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Communi cations, the FBI, and the U.S. Army.

Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador’s highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for lost WWII Japanese gold.

Pamela is an avid reader, drives a ’77 Bronco, and enjoys opera. A dilettante approach to sports has included surfing, skiing, snorkeling, flying, go-cart & auto racing, and driving an off-shore oil rig and an Army tank -- both under close supervision.

She is Past President of the Pan Pacific S.E. Asia Women's Assoc. A Chapter, the Boeing Workforce Development Think Tank, the U.S. Army Advanced Warfighting Working Group, the China Exploration & Research Society, and California Emergency Response Team. Pamela was listed in WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD - Millennium Edition.

Pamela is founder of MYTHWORKS and co-founder of the Alpha Babe Academy.

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Articles by Pamela Jaye Smith

The Powers of Myth

Myths are the stories we tell ourselves to explain the worlds around us and within us.

Is your story mythic? Well, it should be.

And it can be, if you tap into the timeless and powerful tools of storytelling that make some tales so universal yet so personal that they stand the test of time and become classics.

It's said that every "real" myth is true on at least seven level... (read more)

The Lure of the Dark Side

What is it that lures people over to the Dark Side?

Your audience wants to find out how people and things go bad, so in your story, be sure to reveal some of how the characters become the way they are -- not to excuse their behavior but to get us engaged with them.

In this excerpt from my book, The Power of the Dark Side, we'll explore triggers and... (read more)

Do It Right, Period

The Duchess was such a disappointment.

Though the wigs were beyond fabulous and the sets stunningly gorgeous and aristocratically dignified, the characters were flat, their dialogue practically non-existent, and their emotions understandably absent given the dearth of any context for the story.

If you're going to do a period piece, do it up right.

... (read more)

Conscious Media: Part 1

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Conscious Media: Part 2

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Conscious Media: Part 3

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Conscious Media: Part 4

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Conscious Media: Part 5

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Conscious Media: Part 6

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Symbols and Images for Sex, Love and Romance

Film, TV, games, YouTube, graphic novels, manga, comic books, murals… it's all visual art and depends on engaging the eyes in order to engage the hearts and minds of your audience, as well as their loyalty and their purchasing power. In this article, we'll look at a specific type of story, theme, subplot, scene, incident, attitude, and inference – those involving sex, l... (read more)

Myth, Magic, & Metaphysics in Your Media

There’s MAGIC in the air, whether from Harry Potter’s wands or the wizards of Lord of the Rings.

Ancient MYTHS come to life in modern forms from the Mayan calendar and Roland Emmerich’s 2012 to Slumdog Millionaire’s version of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The principles of METAPHYSICS are all the rage in our personal lives from those Laws... (read more)

Future of Story Interview Series: Pamela Jaye Smith

Pamela Jaye Smith is a world renowned mythologist, speaker, consultant, writer, award-winning producer/director, and the founder of MYTHWORKS with over 30 years of experience on features, TV series, commercials, documentaries,... (read more)