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We work with filmmakers and producers early on to shape scripts and ideas, helping ensure the story makes sense emotionally and structurally before production begins.
Plot development is a key to successful writing. Equally important is creating intriguing characters. Together we will work to explore the proposed characters’ psychological presentation to enrich their presence in your work. By engaging in clinical interviews regarding your characters, writers develop a greater appreciation of the characters’ historical life, current and past cognitive, behavioral and emotional presentation, interpersonal, personality and communication styles, thought processes, fears, utilized psychological defenses, ambition, feelings toward self and others and personal strengths and weaknesses.
There can be great scripts in development, yet no one in the room quite knows how it will end. Identifying the main and subliminal themes from a psychological perspective allows filmmakers to consciously decide whether they would like to further highlight specific aspects that exist in verbal and visual form and create desired conclusions for the characters. Additionally, being aware of the themes that lie in the undercurrents of the film allows for rich discussions during postproduction screenings, Q & A sessions and panel discussions while helping filmmakers create a narrative regarding frequent themes explored in their filmmaking.
Many filmmakers create characters who have symptoms of clinical diagnoses that add to the richness of the characters portrayed. Whether the character has mild symptoms baked into their presented personality or severe symptoms that offer a clear vision of life with a mental health diagnosis, PsychMinded Media explores with filmmakers how to best capture the nuances of these symptoms. Ensuring diagnostic accuracy offers audiences the most authentic way to experience the characters imagined.
Characters engage with one another and create dynamics that allow for a greater reveal of who they are independent from those around them. These connections can be intimate and romantic or conflictual and turbulent. Based upon character analyses, consultation regarding character’s engagements with others is developed within these consultations to offer various options of how characters might respond based upon their desired role.
We provide on-set support and consultation to help productions navigate emotionally complex material while maintaining clarity, boundaries, and care for cast and crew.
As production proceeds, the psychological authenticity of characters and locations may feel misaligned. Brief consultations to explore the nuances of the scene take place to ensure the final cut is the most desired.
Scripts that have mental health concerns, death, grief and other challenging topics can be difficult for the crew and cast alike to shoot. Mental health providers are beginning to frequent set spaces to offer mental health support to industry workers to assist with the maintenance of healthy emotional functioning. PsychMinded Media supports such projects and arrange mental health support to crew and staff on shoots that can be emotionally challenging.
Characters are made rich by equally learning about the personality of the character and the world in which they navigate. The quality of the environment(s) characters find themselves in enriches our understanding of who the character is and who they develop to be. Together, PsychMinded Media collaborates to discuss crafting sets that best reflect the characters that have been created.
We review scripts and edits, support creators and performers as the work is released, and participate in festivals through panels, moderation, and Q&As.
Consultation with marketing/advertising team re: psychological aspects of the film to highlight for prescreening press.
Filmmakers create art that generates curiousity from its viewers. As the creator, it can be difficult to find words to articulate the nuances of the film that were able to be captured visually. PsychMinded Media works with filmmakers to develop language to engage with viewers to stimulate rich responses to inquiry and further discussion.
Dr. Marshall Woods serves as a psychological expert on film festival panels and moderates discussions to foster conversations regarding mental health topics depicted in film works.
