Research Tas: Before you continue

For this research task, I have to reflect on notes and questions posed by my tutor about my self-directed project.; the bold text are exerts of the feedback.

Consider carefully moments where the readers hands/feet come into view, how will you make it clear that these belong to the reader, even if they are very different to the reader that is holding the book?

To make the reader involved and incorporate their hands into the book is with the use of perspective, and use gloved hands as seen in the designing process. I want to make it universal no matter what gender or race, I want to occasionally use perspective with a slight fish-bowl effects as we see the world in our own eyes; another way is by having character stare at the reader.

It's ambitious for sure, but I would love to attempt this.

Could you use a different colourway or some other visual technique for the moments when you show the scene from another perspective - from the drone etc?

After much thought, I would like to use charcoal to separate the scenes from another perspective; it'll make the image less focused which could help add to the overall mood and tension of the scene.

Also, I wonder if it would be nice to have some subtle visual clues that Louise isn’t who she claims to be from the beginning - things that would only be picked up by the reader after the big reveal, but which would make a second reading rewarding.

I plan to use story elements to indicate something suspicious with Louise, like when it's bright daylight she'll stay in her tent or wear a full head mask; there's other ways that I will now add through her body language and through her text, making her adjust her hair around her ears occasionally, or make subtle indications that her clothes are stolen from other survivors.