BellyThink Blogs
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013
As I’ve stated before, I am a long way away from being a hardcore gamer. I take breaks and lulls in my Xboxing as I have […]
April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013
Here is another suggestion for Bellyfeel’s ongoing series of transmedia adaptions – ‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac is a classic of Beat and modern US […]
April 3, 2013
April 3, 2013
This post delves briefly into the nitty-gritty of writing transmedia stories that use a ‘tent-pole’ narrative like a film or a book as their Main Linear […]
March 27, 2013
March 27, 2013
Way back in 2004 when I started writing our interactive film, CRIMEFACE, I came up with an in-house term to describe the audience that would watch […]
March 20, 2013
March 20, 2013
“Story is about Respect, not Disdain, for the audience.” No one should ever get away with treating their audience with disdain or contempt. Above is a […]
March 13, 2013
March 13, 2013
This post continues my thoughts on transmedia writing and storytelling. Just as screenwriters of horror films write specific visual sequences and actions whose sole purpose is […]
March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013
And this really will be brief as I concentrate mainly on the BIG moments created by the impact of new technologies on storytelling. Storytelling has evolved […]
February 27, 2013
February 27, 2013
In this blog I will describe a few methods we at Bellyfeel use to expand a character’s life beyond the main events that happen to him […]
February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013
In a perfect world a transmedia writing team would be assembled at the concept stage of a transmedia storytelling project. It would consist of a wide […]
February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013
In many ways the games industry is way ahead of traditional media makers like TV and film production companies when it comes to understanding how to […]