PITCH PACKAGE
Synopses are often difficult for the author to write. After all, how can you possibly condense your complex, fascinating, fabulous story into one page?!?
I can help with that by offering an objective eye combined with the ability – based on my 30+ years in the media industry – to identify the concepts, high-lights, conflicts, characters and resolutions that agents, publishers, producers, and buyers want to see.
If you’d like to have me read your screenplay, novel, play, or treatment, and write up the Logline, Pitch, and Synopsis for it, that fee is One Thousand Dollars [$1,000].
Add a 5 page synopsis/treatment of your story for another Two Hundred Dollars [$200].
“Pamela Jaye Smith is a huge encouragement to any writer trying to hone their story. She loves mythic characters and journeys. Anyone would vastly benefit from her insight and wisdom. I especially appreciated her advice on my writing.”
Jen Waters, Pen Jen Productions
The Pitch Package:
• Read your script [up to 120 pages] or manuscript [up to 300 double-spaced pages]. Additional pages= $2 script / $3 manuscript.
• Phone calls – Initial 30 minute call discussing your core Theme, Style, Characters, Character Arcs, and Message. Follow-up 30 minute call after your receipt of Pitch Materials to be sure they’re aligned with your vision.
• Write for your story:
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- Logline
- 3-sentence Pitch
- 3-paragraph Synopsis
- 2-page Synopsis
FEE: $1,000
Query Letter – tailored to each PitchPortal – e.g. Virtual PitchFest, Stage32, Writers Digest, etc….each has different formats for query letters. $100 per page – Can be used for all companies, agencies, managers on that particular PitchPortal.
Pitch Deck – depending on your project and who you’re presenting it to, you may be required to have a Pitch Deck / Bible. Typically that can include the Pitch Materials (as above), plus other items such as Character Descriptions, Episode and/or Season Synopses, Market Appeal, Creator CV, Mood Boards, Images, etc. The Pitch Deck is usually in PowerPoint. Fees vary according to complexity and begin at $1,900.
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Printed books, up to 200 pages add $200; over 200 pages please email pamelajayesmith@gmail.com for rates.
Go to Story & Script Consultations Page for PayPal buttons at the bottom of the page to make your Service Fees payment.
“Thank you for the great pitch advice! The Expo was absolutely wonderful, and it couldn’t have started off better than the great kick-off meeting with you. I felt so prepared and ready to conquer the world.
I ended up doing 11 pitches. 10 asked for my leave-behind, 5 gave me compliments on my pitch (including one who didn’t ask for my leave-behind). So I was so happy.”
Natashia Saunders “Spinning Wheel” – winner Beverly Hills Film Festival
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Pamela Jaye Smith is a writer, consultant, speaker, and award-winning writer-producer-director. She was a regular panelist at the Hollywood Film Festival’s “Sell Your Story To Hollywood” weekend pitch events for a number of years, and has been a Pitch Consultant at the Great American PitchFest for the last eight years.
Pamela is the author of books from publishers Michael Wiese Productions and Pallas Press:
BEYOND THE HERO’S JOURNEY: Other Powerful Mythic Themes
THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: Create Great Villains and Dangerous Situations
INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Using the Eight Classic Centers of Motivation
SHOW ME THE LOVE!: All Kinds of Love for All Kinds of Stories [with Monty Hayes McMillan]
SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media
ROMANTIC COMEDIES: These FILMS Can Save Your Love Life – a movie guide-book to Rom-Coms
With 30+ years in media on feature films, TV series, web series, documentaries, music videos, commercials, corporate, and military projects, Pamela has pitched fiction and non-fiction projects to major Hollywood studios and production companies, independent producers, heads of international corporations, and government officials both U.S. and foreign. She has traveled extensively on the projects themselves, including to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand.
Pamela Jaye is the founder of MYTHWORKS and co-founder of Mythic Challenges and the Alpha Babe Academy.
To consult with Pamela on your story pitches, contact her at pamelajayesmith@gmail.com or 323-874-6447.
Also available: Story & Script Consultation
Also available: Pitch Proxy
Read your one-page [1 p.] synopsis and/or one page [1 p.] Logline, Pitch, Synopsis.
Email three days before scheduled phone consultation.
Thirty minute (30) phone conversation brain-storming and offering specific sentences for a revised Logline, Pitch, and Synopsis.
Feel free to record our conversation.
To schedule a consultation – pamelajayesmith@gmail.com or 323-874-6447
FEE: $200