Pamela Jaye teams up with some of the most requested and well-known consultants on the art, craft, and marketing of story to bring your organization unique seminars tailored to your particular needs.

with Dr. Linda Seger
http://www.lindaseger.com/

Linda and Pamela combine their unique approaches to improving the art and craft of story-telling to bring your organization both in-depth and wide-ranging presentations covering theme, plot, character, dialogue, symbols, and imagery utilizing film clips, lectures and interactive exercises.

http://www.lindaseger.com/

http://www.lindaseger.com/book.htm

Dr. Linda Seger created and defined the job of script consultant when she began her business in 1981, based on a method for analyzing scripts she developed for her dissertation project. Since then, she has written eight popular books on screenwriting, consulted on over 2000 scripts, including over 40 produced feature films and about 35 produced television projects. Her clients have included TriStar Pictures, Ray Bradbury, William Kelley, Linda Lavin, Suzanne de Passe, Tony Bill, as well as production companies and writers from six continents. http://www.lindaseger.com/bio.htm

Some topics Linda and Pamela have developed for various venues include:

Creativity and Story

• Using the Creative Process. Where do Ideas come from?
• Shaping the Story and the Scenes.
• Applying the Three-Act Structure to Scenes and Scene Sequences.
• The Spiritual Truths behind Myths. Mythic Processes. How myths work.
• Setting up your Story's World View and Building Dramatic Conflict through the Dark Side. The 3 levels of the Dark Side, Lures of the Dark Side, and Confronting the Dark Side.

Character and Character Dimensionality

• Conflict, Dimensionality, Deepening the Character through Subtext, The Transformational Arc.
• Creating unique, believable characters with the Centers of Motivation. Villains, antagonists, anti-heroes - the Power of the Dark Side.

Themes, Imagery, and Symbols

• Finding the Theme, using Psychological Themes to create further empathy and identification between audience and characters.
• Mythic Themes - Beyond the Hero's Journey, (Stealing fire from Heaven, Twins, Fatal Attraction, etc.)
• The 3 important Mythic Statements you need in your story: Thematic Statement, Mission Statement, Lesson Statement.
• Images and Image Systems. Using Images as Metaphors. Creating a more cinematic film using image systems.
• How symbols and images have been used in story-telling across ages and cultures. Exploring powerful symbols and imagery and how to use them.

Other topics tailored for your specific needs.

with Kathie Fong Yoneda
http://www.kathiefongyoneda.com/team.htm

Kathie and Pamela specialize in coordinated workshops which encompass the craft of storytelling/mythology with the practicalities of the business of being a writer. They provide an expanded perspective on writing (be it a screenplay, novel manuscript, short story, etc.) utilizing film clips, lectures and interactive exercises.

http://www.kathiefongyoneda.com

Kathie Fong Yoneda, author of The Script-Selling Game, has been a Hollywood "insider" for over 25 years, specializing in story analysis/development at Paramount, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Disney and Universal. She's held executive positions at Walt Disney, Touchstone, Island Pictures, and Disney TV Animation and has taught more than 100 seminars and workshops all over North America, Asia and Europe. Her clientele list includes several award-winning novelists and screenwriters.

In addition to being a core member of the on-line faculty at Writers University, Kathie also team-teaches with Linda Seger, Pamela Jaye Smith and Pamela Wallace. She is also a partner in TalkStory Productions which co-exec produces the popular cable series Beyond The Break.

http://www.kathiefongyoneda.com/team.htm

Some topics Kathie and Pamela have developed for various venues include;

THE FAMILY GENRE - WRITING AND MARKETING

• What elements define the "family" genre? What topics should be avoided in family films. What is the best way to approach threatening and/or "scary" topics in family films? What is the best way to push the envelope in this genre?
• What is the best way to pitch a family oriented story? Is the genre more successful on a studio or independent level? What are the differences between trying to sell a family piece as opposed to any other genre?

FROM GREECE TO HOLLYWOOD & BEYOND: Myths & The Movies

• The tales from ancient Greece have had a profound and lasting influence on many forms of storytelling, from epic poems to novels and even modern-day cinema.
• The Mythic Journey - in The Outer World, The Inner World, Space, Time.
• Discussion and film clips to illustrate the impact that mythology has on today's movies.

This presentation can be tailored to any culture's myths.

MAKING FANTASY & MYTH YOUR CREATIVE REALITY

• Take your imagination and your projects to a higher level of effectiveness in the worlds of fantasy and myth with interactive workshops to define and enhance your plots, characters, worlds, and actions with the classic tools of myth-making and fantasy story-telling.

Other topics tailored for your specific needs.

with Geffrey von Gerlach

Geffrey and Pamela have worked together on various media projects for clients from General Motors to independent filmmakers. They went through five years formal training in the Wisdom Teachings together and are both certified teachers of the Mystery Schools.

Using film clips and interactive exercises they bring the power and fun of Applied Mythology to your project and/or organization.

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Ghost Points is von Gerlach's decades-spanning novel about a once celebrated photographer, who, lost in a coma due to an unsuccessful suicide is given a chance, through the legendary art of acupuncture, to relive the passions and adventures of his remarkable life. A mystery novel, Beehive Arizona, will be released in 2010.

Geffrey von Gerlach is an acclaimed Doctor of Oriental Medicine, a certified Life Coach, an artist, graphic designer, and novelist. From the BBC in London, to New York, and then on to Los Angeles, Geffrey's unique visual talents have enhanced films, TV shows, Broadway plays, magazines [GQ, Forbes, Men's Wear, American Home and Seventeen], commercials, and still shoots. He has restored paintings for Malcolm Forbes, created visuals for Colleen Dewhurst plays, and painted portraits of Glenda Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Michael York and many more.

For six years Geffrey was the Designer and Director of Phoenix Art Group's annual Inizio extravaganzas with themes such as: Art in Orbit, Grand Tour and Broadway Medley.

Some topics Geffrey and Pamela have developed for various venues include:

ARCHETYPAL AILMENTS - for the Healing Arts

• Each chakra has its weaknesses as well as strengths
• Each Archetype aligns you with particular tendencies
• Learn ways to analyze, address, and alleviate ailments - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual - based on these timeless paradigms.
• Pamela presented this seminar for Continuing Education credit at the WinterBrain and StoryCon event; her book Inner Drives covers the chakra approach to healing.
• Geffrey uses this approach daily in his medical, counseling, and coaching practices.

ART DIRECT YOUR STORY, NOVEL, OR SCREENPLAY

• How to use well-chosen words to create the world of your story, be it 17th century England or 45th century Alpha Centauri.
• Descriptive techniques.
• Weaving the "look" of your screenplay strongly enough to last through the development and filming processes, where the collaborative nature of media-making too often shreds the writer's original vision.
• Read Pamela's article (with input from Geffrey) on period films at the Writers Store ezine, "Do It Right, Period."

EVENT PLANNING & DESIGN

• Enhance your organization's event, be it sales or celebration, with the use of Mythic Themes, ArchePaths, historical recreations, futuristic and fantasy settings - all personally designed to reflect your vision, goals, and esprit de corps.
• We can help create your mythology and express it in sets, music, costumes, accessories, performances, takeaways, and more.
• Some of Geffrey's credits here include: Mahler, The Palisars, Beacon Hill; design and costuming for the music industry including the Dyvinyls, Diana Ross, Barry Manilow, and many others.
• Besides her work in the movie business and for the military, Pamela has also contributed mythic elements for workshops at a national aerospace convention.

WRITING OUT OF TIME & PLACE

• Create dialogue that correctly reflects the time and place of your story yet is accessible to today's readers and viewers.
• Establish the norms of the day so that your characters' actions are justified.
• Link otherwise alien cultures to contemporary times with the touchstones of human nature, archetypes, and timeless Mythic Themes