Biography
Melody Jackson, Ph.D., is the Founder and Chief Smart Girl at Smart Girls Productions, a full-service market research, branding, marketing strategy and administrative organization committed to support both creatives and the business sides of companies in bringing their creative visions to profit, prosperity and impact. Smart Girls to date has worked with well over 10,000 actors, screenwriters, producers, managers, and agents one-on-one.
Melody was ranked among the Top 5 Script Analysts in the country on three different occasions by Creative Screenwriting Magazine. Melody's articles have appeared in many top industry magazine and she also periodically appears as a guest speaker at in-person events, online events, and on podcasts.
By profession Melody Jackson is a marketing research and branding expert, career strategist, and media coach for actors, screenwriters, and producers. Smart Girls provides a variety of administrative, consulting, and marketing services to the film industry -- creatives in particular -- including marketing and promotion strategy, market research, branding, script formatting, pitching, and consulting.
Melody has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. This doctoral program explores stories of all cultural origins and has a special emphasis on Joseph Campbell's body of work on the hero's journey, which Star Wars was designed around. With evocative, insightful articulation of feedback, Melody's educational background is featured in her style which she uses to coach thousands of writers one-on-one to build a solid structure for the story and on getting a rich and complex range of emotions on the page.
Once a writer's script is ready to market, Smart Girls also helps in the next step -- with Melody at the helm -- providing services for market research, designing impactful pitch decks, and creating an appropriate marketing and positioning strategy.
Melody's professional screenwriting influences and mentors include top industry teachers and colleagues John Truby, Robert McKee, Bo Zenga, Chris Vogler, Syd Field, Blake Snyder (Save the Cat), and Linda Seger.
With her analytical mind that was developed while earning a B.S. in Computer Science at Ball State University in Indiana, Melody's approach to the menu of services provided by Smart Girls benefits from her unique balance and blend of left and right brain power. This blend has uniquely positioned Melody to work on a continuum of development, from the beginning staged to getting to market -- from translating a strong structure outline into an authentic emotionally-impactful story that's transformative to the soul ... to presenting a persuasive version of exactly that in a verbal pitch, a written pitch, a trailer, or a pitch deck.
One of Smart Girls Signature services is assisting Actors and Screenwriters with Market Research, creating targeted lists of Agents, Managers and Production Companies who are a good fit and target for that actor, writer, or producer.
Further, Smart Girls Productions has created practical and powerful pitch decks for project promotion.
Smart Girls has also typed (and retyped) thousands of scripts for screenwriters and high-level producers to get their work ready for the market.
For more information, go to smartg.com, call 818/907-6511, or email sg99@smartg.com.
