Crit on Research Brief

The overall response I got from today's crit is: "I don't understand what you're doing?"
Fair enough. Looks like I need to rethink what it is I am doing. I think it is one of those scenarios where it makes more sense while you are doing it, and when you try to convey what its being produced to other people there is a dramatic realisation on both sides that not enough thought has been put into it.

Here are the points I took:
Research informs content - It is clear now that I need to do more active research into the subject of instructional design in order to backup and assist in generating visuals.

Interviews - Research that will help inform and generate the content.

The work produced could still form something on 'the design of instructions'.

The research does not NEED to be a book. I was a little confused from an earlier briefing and thought that this was intergral to the research brief.

So where do I go now... essentially I have a Skype brief to begin visually working on, however for the moment I would like to do a quick brief, just something to get back into my working practice after the dissertation. Justin discussed with me the idea of doing book cover designs for a sci-fi book, I have re-newed interest in this idea after the last crit, it just sounds like something I can be creative with and enjoy doing. Something like a de-construction of a space ship, an alien... etc. Perhaps this would actually prove harder to do than an actual physical object in existence, we'll just have to see how it goes.