Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
Having been let down at the last minute by our guest speaker who as part of the original planned club meeting, we instead will take a walk through the OVFM archives with our curator Andy Watson.
So, please feel free to look through the archive lists HERE and if anything leaps out at you and is on the system then make a note of it and we (and by we I mean Andy) will endeavour to screen it for you.
See you Tuesday!
Due to rising costs we’re moving the dinner this year to the Change of Horses, 87 HighStreet, FarnboroughVillage, BR6 7BB.
The price will be £20 for three courses including service.
We realise that some of us go there periodically for the pub lunch, or after the North v South competition, but we’d like to make it clear that this will be a totally different function menu, and the room properly set out for a dinner.
Partners are very welcome, and the NEW menu and booking slip can be downloaded for printing off HERE.
We ask that you fill them in and send the full amount to Peggy Parmenter as soon as possible.
There’s a maximum of 50 places so don’t miss out!
It is with regret that we bring you the sad news that OVFM club member Val Pinkerton passed away on Saturday January 26th after a short but brave battle against Motor Neuron Disease.
We are sure you will join us in sending our deepest condolences to Val’s wife Veronica and the Pinkerton family at this difficult time.
R.I.P Val
The Grand Final of the North v South Competition took place on Sunday 27th January in the South at its usual venue of the Village Hall in Farnborough, Kent.
Apart from the 10 Final films, we also showed the remainder of the Northern entries that didn’t quite make the Final.
Around 50 people attended the event and we were particularly delighted to welcome Gordon Hunt and Ian Reed of Sutton Coldfield Movie Makers who made the journey down from the West Midlands.
Our judges were Screen Archive South East, whose Director is Dr. Frank Gray, a man well known to amateur film-makers in the South East.
Following the showing of the films, the audience were asked to fill in their voting slips. ‘Nicely Handeled’ by Tynemouth Video Group won the audience vote by a mile although it didn’t feature in the judges top 3. No surprise there then!
Audience Vote
1st Nicely Handeled Tynemouth Video Group
2nd Foolproof! Coast Video Club
3rd Operation Black Hat Sutton Coldfield Movie Makers
Official Result
1st Operation Black Hat Sutton Coldfield Movie Makers
2nd Foolproof! Coast Video Club
3rd Man With Van Rochdale Movie Makers
Needless to say, nobody in the audience matched the judge’s decision but Graham Sinden of Shooters Hill Camcorder Club was closest and took the ‘Audience Vote’ prize.
Our ‘Guess the Theme’ competition was won by Brenda Wheatley of Orpington Video & Film Makers who correctly guessed that this years theme is………
‘REVOLUTION’
Thanks to everyone who attended for their support.
Mike Coad
Hello loyal OVMFers!!
As you know the 2013 Spring Show is soon upon us and we would like to spread the word around the Orpington community. To ensure we make a bigger splash this year, Simon “Snapper” Earwicker has created a poster to display across various willing public places to help generate interest.
If you are able to help by putting a poster up on a supermarket or social club notice board or somewhere visible where you may think interest in our show might be generated please download and print off a copy of the poster from HERE!
Many thanks for your co-operation.
Following the success of last year’s coaching evening sessions, which resulted in the making of The Amazing Healing Machine, we will be running a second group of sessions in 2013.
As already trailed at previous meetings, this time the emphasis will be on a debriefing of the last shoot and of Disastermind, with the intention of putting useful improvements into practice and to make a short film later.
We need members who were directly involved in these shoots to volunteer and to describe any problems they faced and to give their views freely. Also any suggestions for us to take to the next one.
Experienced members can help the Club in the supervising and setting up aspects. This is also what a real (reel?) club is all about, isn’t it?
For your diary, the four Tuesdays will be in the usual Barnard Room at 7.30 for 8pm:
Feb 26th – show the Healing machine, comments and then Disastermind and comments
March 12th – follow on with the introduction of the shoot and making arrangements – who does what. Also run through the script and it’s requirements.
April 9th – start the shoot
April 23rd – finish it!
Please do step forward and offer to take on the various roles. Who’s first to be Director, Clapperboard etc….? It will be a bit if fun as well as hard work! So come along. I’ll be looking for the first volunteers at the next meeting.
Then as before copies of the footage will be circulated to those who wish to have a go at editing and creating a film for the Club.
Please ring me on 01732 462900 or email ian.menage@gmail.com with any suggestions and offers to help make this a useful and successful event.
Ian
So it’s freezing cold here in old Blighty at the moment and some of us have had some of the old white stuff get up our noses (no not THAT!) but that isn’t the case for other countries around this big old world of ours as some tend to enjoy periods of prolonged sunshine. And some of our OVFM members tend to take their cameras with them whenever they pay a visit to these sun soaked locales to record the sights and sounds of their time spent in these wondrous places.
Others of you prefer to traipse around the soggy grounds of our fair countryside or subject yourselves to similarly cold and icy climates for your overseas holiday excursions and film these too – that’s fine too (I guess, it’s not for to judge you bunch of weirdoes!).
And the “M” in OVFM wouldn’t stand for “masochists” if we didn’t set aside at least one of our club meetings to view the results of your holiday filming, which is exactly what this week’s meeting is for. So, if you’ve been out and about in the name of leisure and relaxation recently and captured some of your exploits on film/tape/miniDV/whatever then bring them along to the meeting and we’ll do our best to feign interest as always.
Please note that films must not exceed 10 minutes in length.
If you are bringing a film could you please reply to this post below and could we also ask that when films are submitted you include your name, the title, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and running time somewhere on the discs/cover? It’s a huge help for the club’s film and archive records. And if you have any specific instructions re: sound please let the projectionist know ahead of time. Many thanks.
Finally, can any trophy winners in last year’s Annual Competition please bring their trophies with them to this meeting or on February 6th BY THE LATEST as Brenda Wheatley needs them to have the names of this year’s winners engraved on them.
See you on Tuesday and we all look forward to sleeping throu….er…seeing your films!*
* DISCLAIMER – The views and opinions expressed in the post do not reflect or represent those of OVFM as an organisation and shouldn’t be taken literally as it is not in the club’s interest to appear demeaning or derogatory toward its members or their tastes in recreational habits.
Then again I am the Webmaster here and thus I can say what I like! MWHAHAHAHAHA!
Our first project for 2013 was suggested by John Ransley.
The theme should be pretty self explanatory but is is really that simple? Surprises come in many forms – a surprise birthday party, a present one didn’t expect, an underdog victory in a sports event, friends or family members being reunited after a number of years – or maybe a film with an ending no-one was expecting….
While I am sure John has his own ideas when he suggested this theme as you can see, the possibilities are wide and fertile.
The closing date – i.e the night we will be screening the completed films – is Tuesday February 19th which gives you just over a month to get something together.
Could we also ask that when films are submitted you include your name, the title, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and running time somewhere on the discs/cover? It’s a huge help for the club’s film and archive records. And if you have any specific instructions re: sound please let the projectionist know ahead of time. Many thanks.
Good luck and we all look forward to seeing your films!
It’s time for another project and this one was suggested by…erm…Me!
The genesis of this was an idea I had for short film many moons ago, when this was all fields and we used to walk twenty miles to school in bare feet through the snow carrying our milk in our hands, about the power and effectiveness of just two simple little words. I then decided that everyone else in the film should have dialogue of just two words as well to get the point across – or drive it home with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, take your pick!
Anyhoo, come the AGM last year and when suggestions were requested I dug this old idea out of the archives and proffered it to the Legion of Doom and the rest of the club. Fast forward to now and this little old idea of mine is now an official OVFM Project theme!
While I had a definite idea of my own as to what I wanted my two word lines for, everyone else is of course free to interpret this as they see fit – as long as the dialogue doesn’t exceed two words naturally. Whether the whole cast is bound by this or you leave it up to just one character is up to you! Drama, comedy, animation, one minute or five minutes long – your decision! Just keep it clean and don’t nick my script idea!!
The closing date – i.e the night we will be screening the completed films – is Tuesday April 30th which gives you just over three months to get something together.
Could we also ask that when films are submitted you include your name, the title, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and running time somewhere on the discs/cover? It’s a huge help for the club’s film and archive records. And if you have any specific instructions re: sound please let the projectionist know ahead of time. Many thanks.
Good luck and we all look forward to seeing your films!
It’s that time of year when OVFM celebrates the days getting brighter, the weather is getting warmer and the trees and plants are in bloom once again. So what better way is there for a film club to mark this occasion by sharing with everyone the best of the many films made over the past twelve months along with a few gems from the archive. We shall also be taking a look back over the past twelve months in the Orpington/Bromley region through the annual Newsreel.
The 2013 Spring Show will take place on FRIDAY 22nd March at 7.30 pm
VENUE – Methodist Church, 19 Sevenoaks Road, Orpington BR6 9JH
DIRECTIONS – GOOGLE MAP
WEBSITE – http://www.orpingtonmethodist.org.uk/welcome.htm
Club members get in free but for others the tickets are £5 – which includes refreshments – and are available from our secretary Freddy Beard on 01689 813616 .
For an entertaining and sociable evening get your tickets a.s.a.p. and bring along your friends and family!
See you then!