While I was on holiday in Majorca, I read Agatha Christie’s ‘Death on the Nile’. I have seen the screen version of this in the past but it was quite a while ago so I’d forgotten most of it. At first I found it very confusing because there were so many characters to keep track of, and I had to make a real effort to get all the different connections between characters straight in my head to start making sense of the storyline. This got me thinking about a visual diagram of everyones relationships with each other, almost like what you would see in a detective enquiry (which is also relevant).
Agathie Christie describes things in a lot of detail which helped me to build up pictures of each character - this is most evident when a new character is introduced because she uses their description to hint at their background and social status. Character design is not one of my strong points and I think this is because I struggle to build up the persona of what I want this character to be like. Maybe working with a readymade description of someone might make it easier for me to represent the appearance I need.
I found the isolation of all of these characters being on a boat really interesting as it is almost like the book is set in its own little world where only these people exist.
I also picked up on numerous motifs in the book, there are plenty of individual objects involved in the murder investigation which could be used to make some interesting imagery. Also, the location of the events in the story could be good to work with, the boat for example and Egypt and the Nile.
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