BPS 108: The Power of the Dark Side: Creating Great Villains with Pamela Jaye Smith

Today on the show we have author Pamela Jaye Smith. She is is
a mythologist, international consultant-speaker, and award-winning
writer-producer-director with 30+ years in features, TV, music
videos, commercials, documentaries, web series, corporate and
military films. She has worked at major studios and with wildly
independent companies in Hollywood and around the world, always
enjoying the process of bringing creative ideas to worldwide
screens.

Credits include Fox, Disney, Paramount, Microsoft, Universal,
RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Women
in Film, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, LA and Marseille and Roma
WebFests, Romance Writers of America, Children’s Book Writers LA,
and many media festivals and

Pamela founded MYTHWORKS a consulting and information resource
offering Applied Mythology for individuals, organizations, and the
media arts. She teaches and consults on fiction and non-fiction,
writes for others, coaches writers and actors, and helps
individuals discover and use their personal archetypes.

Smith authored "SHOW ME THE LOVE: All Kinds of Love for All Kinds
of Stories", "INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters
Using the [chakras] 8 Classic Centers of Motivation",
"SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media",
and "BEYOND THE HERO'S JOURNEY: Other Powerful Mythic
Themes".

She was the mythologist interviewed on Fox's ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL
DRIFT Special Features and has appeared on national TV and radio
programs as a mythology expert, including the "Forbidden Secrets"
TV series. She was on-camera spokesperson for Microsoft's "Age of
Mythology" on-line computer game and designed their "Which God Are
You?" quiz.

Her book The Power of the Dark Side: Creating Great Villains,
Dangerous Situations, & Dramatic Conflict is why I wanted her
on the show. I wanted to go deep into what makes a
good multidimensional villain. Conflict is the very heart
and soul of drama, and Pamela's latest work explores character
conflict and the various ways to portray it both in scripts and on
the stage.

Enjoy my conversation with Pamela Jaye Smith.

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