After realising my first ruff wasn't up to scratch I changed the idea slightly and re created it. The idea is still using the pretence but is very different. It came about because I was watching a TV show called Ghost Whispers and that got me thinking about how different countries see death and how the celebrate and remember it. After looking at these I came across an Asian tradition that has slight difference all across Asia but has the same core, respecting the dead and leading any murdered or lost souls over to the after life. They do this by lighting lanterns that either float up into the sky or down a lake or river. This is very symbolic and I really like the idea of helping lost souls find there way and how I could illustrate this into a narrative, so I firstly decided that I would look at types of water lantern that they use across all of Asia.
I then started sketching out ruff layout and how I could incorporate that striking female that I liked from my first ruff. She soon became a very important part of the narrative to my image, she was a lost soul or maybe the lady who is lighting the lanterns for the lost souls of the children in the forest. I tried a few layouts but found I like the idea of the lost children running and seeing the lights through the forest, it gave the image a spooky yet heart pulling feel to the image that there not just nay spirits there children's.
This was my first ruff of this image but after talking to some other students they told me they felt she was to static and separate, after thinking about there advice I could see what they meant and went back to re thinking how I could make my composition flow better.
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