O.V.F.M. Oscar Night 15th March 2016 It was a cold and deep, dark, black, Bible black, dark, pitch black night and the wild dogs bayed pitifully at where the moon would have been if it hadn’t been so dark (it was dark…you know…night time, well past 8pm, we don’t muck around at OVFM you […]
North v South Competition Grand Final. 6th December 2015, Farnborough Village Hall, Farnborough, Kent. 3pm – 7.30pm This years event was tinged with sadness as we remembered Mike Coad, the Orpington Video and Film Makers member and keen champion and organizer of the North v South Competition in the south. His sudden and unexpected death […]
Colin Celebrates Fifty Years with OVFM. Fresh from his success leading the August OVFM ramble around Penshurst, the ever dynamic Colin Jones accepted an invitation to share his film making memories at a recent club meeting. ‘An Evening With Colin Jones’ was entertaining, informative and thoroughly good fun. Amongst the films shown were great examples […]
OVFM is an eclectic mix of people of all ages, abilities and interests and consequently the films made by OVFM members reflect that variety. Two relative youngsters associated with OVFM are Vice-chairman Sam Brown and his friend and colleague Adam Beveridge. The two of them have collaborated on many projects and have received well deserved […]
We may not have been at our usual venue and we may have been down on numbers due to health reasons but were we downhearted? Take a look at the photos and you can decide as in a departure from the norm club members were asked to take their own presentation photos – or ‘Selfies’ […]
One evening, two teams, a brace of video cameras, a heap of props, and a bunch of ideas. Your challenge, should you accept it, is to…make a short film! With a maximum of two hours available and the clock already ticking the pressure was on and there was no time for the normal club niceties…except […]
LIGHTING For those of you who wanted a recap of the first part of the first Coaching Evening of 2014, here it is. nike air max goadome Three important things to consider about light 1. Quality 2. Direction 3. Colour 1. Quality – Is it hard or soft (contrasty or diffuse), strong or weak (quantity), […]
Orpington Video and Film Makers, or OVFM for short, is a friendly amateur film making club in the Orpington area. OVFM members make dramas, documentaries, comedies and experimental films. OVFM has a large membership of all ages and abilities and can number amongst its ranks experienced award winning film makers and complete novices. By its […]
Let me tell you, if you missed our guest speaker Tim Jones, you have my sympathy, because you missed a real treat! Tim is a Senior Lecturer at Christ Church College Canterbury in the Film and TV Dept. but more importantly than that he has a long association with OVFM. He was just twelve years […]
Sunshine, Showers, Slopes and a…SPITFIRE! With ingredients like that the dish de jour must be the OVFM Ramble! The gang gathered early and there was a palpable enthusiasm to get on and conquer what we would later call ‘The North Face of Shoreham Hill’. But for now we were blissully ignorant of the trial […]
