Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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THE HISTORY OF ORPINGTON For this week’s club gathering we had over the podium to Pat Palmer who has kindly stepped up to take the reins as organiser of this special club project as originally reported HERE. Pat will be giving us an update on the current status of the project, seeking participation from club …
It’s brain cells at the ready for the next club meeting as we are required to bandy around ideas for films to make and enter for this year’s North vs. South competition! The theme is “Out of the Blue” which is one of those wonderfully nebulous titles that lends itself to a myriad of …
Per Lady Annabelle of Lancaster: Hello everybody This year’s newsreel really should reflect the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations. Looking around the following events will take place in and around the Orpington area and hope that they can be well covered by a variety of club members. If you think there are others who should be told please …
That’s right folks, the time has come for our club members who accepted this special challenge – first announced back in March – to show us the fruits of their labours in editing the supplied raw footage provided by our vice-chairman Sam “Choo Choo” Brown. For the rest of us, the contents of that footage …
OVFM will be making a Club film featuring History of Orpington and hope that every member will contribute in some way. Stage 1 is to gather all footage and information that currently exists and Project Co-ordinator David Laker is appealing for: (a) Any clips in member’s films (possibly on other topics) that …
As 2016 rolls on we are just a few months away from the start of the annual Top Ten competition! As ever the names of all OVFM club members have been put into the hat belonging to our competitions organiser Brenda Wheatley and drawn in random to make up the participants for each of the qualifying rounds that …
It’s time ladies and gentlemen for you to reveal to the club how hard you have been working in fulfilling the project theme of “Spring”, as originally announced HERE. Project evenings are a fun way to flex one’s creative muscles and it never ceases to amaze how many different interpretations we get on a …
While we have a lot of fun across the calendar year we do sometimes have to get serious here at OVFM and that means our annual AGM has come around again. This is the one night of the year where club members get to air their grievances, their concerns, their fears or ask that all …
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We have another project for you all but this time it comes with a twist it is an editing exercise only! Usually a theme is chosen and club members are expected to conceive and create a film in any style or genre to accommodate that theme but the difference here is that half the …
When you think of the great partnerships in film, the names that usually come to mind are Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Hope & Crosby, Lewis & Martin. But at OVFM the names at the top of our list are Reg & Annabelle Lancaster. Forever at the heart of OVFM’s activities the Lancasters have …