Oldham from a Distance

Julian Baum and Clair Duval of Take 27 spent another wet and windy day today trying to film a long shot of Oldham from a distance. Great cloud shots as the wild weather of 2012 continues into October, but just the right view. The idea is to try to reconstruct the view to show the countryside reaching right up towards the centre of the present town, as it was about 1815 when George Street Chapel was built.
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A View Over Oldham

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Reconstruction Filming - first cut

Take 27 have made a first draft of the photo-montage filming we carried out yesterday, Sunday 30 September. The attempt to make 30 people look like a congregation of 150 is really taking shape.

Reconstruction Filming Day 30 Sept 2012

We spent all day today filming a reconstruction of a congregation at George Street Chapel. This will feature within our interpretation video, which will describing the history of the chapel from its construction to the present day. Our 'congregation' was made up of Friends of George Street and Age UK Oldham staff, friends and relatives. Many thanks to you all.
A short video of the filming day will be uploaded to our new 'FriendsofGeorgeSt' Youtube video channel. Link from the embedded video in this post, or the video bar on the right.
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Claire Duval and Julian Baum filming 'close-ups'.

Extra, Extra - Cast required for filming

We are looking for people who would like to help us recreate the chapel as it might have looked about the time of its first centenary in 1916. Julian Baum and Claire Duval from Take 27 are producing film and 3d graphic sequences to aid  the interpretation of the chapel. The end product will fuse together photographs, live filming and 3d graphics and animations to tell the story of the chapel from its construction in 1815 through to the present day, and Age UK Oldham's work to restore it.
Do you have old clothes in your attic (or wardrobe?) that look as if they date to the first world war?
Do you look like this? -

George Street Chapel Congregation, 1916

Or can we make you look like this?
Cast required between 10am and 5pm on Sunday, 30 September, 2012.
Refreshments provided.
If you would like to be part of this project please book yourself in.
Contact Maggie Hurley to get yourself signed up - maggie.hurley (at) ageukoldham.org.uk