The photo on the top left was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt on V J Day in Times Square, it shows the 'stranger' relationship between a celebrating sailor and an unsuspecting woman on the streets. To relate this to Georgie Porgie the poem:
'Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away!'
I wanted to change the meaning due to the development of relationships in modern day society. People meet their partners at pubs and clubs these days and due to the addition of alcohol, people tend to just go for a meaningless kiss and then proceed to regret it the next morning.
My idea is to re-create Alfred Eisenstaedt's VJ Day kiss scene as it is an iconic moment and image in history and the act itself suits the rhyme and almost redeems the romance to a kiss even without a relationship. The idea of re-creating an old photograph in a modern style brings the two eras together and leaves a choice of colour photos or black and white.
I also experimented with a slow shutter speed to create a blurred movement of Georgie Porgie running away after kissing the girl whereas she is still in focus. This effect works quite well as an action of the rhyme as it explains it well and the expressions are spot on.
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