Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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CLOSE SHAVE Hello again and here we are with another exciting film project for you to participate in. The subject this time is “Close Shave” which sounds like a very fertile premise for a short film. As ever, how this is interpreted is down to you – you can make a thriller, a horror, a slapstick comedy or …
After a few weeks of meetings held at a change of venue we are back at our regular haunt of St Augustine’s for the OVFM AGM 2015. This is one of the most important nights in our club meeting calendar as it is the night where not only do we elect our committee but YOU …
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Coaching Evening 21st April 2015 On this extra Tuesday evening we are being visited by John Mills and Alan Butcher all the way from Surrey Borders Movie Makers based in Farnham. Do have a look at their entertaining web site for an interesting description of their large club’s activities (www.surreyborder.org.uk). Their presentation is to promote …
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’ …
Last night, March 17th, OVFM held their annual Oscars awards ceremony at the All Saints Church in Orpington. A capacity crowd filled another venue while some of the OVFM faithful showed up to receive their awards and see their peers be rewarded for their creativity and hard work over the past year. As ever our …
2015 is starting to pick up steam which means the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award is about to begin! 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 …
Those American impostors may have got there first but our annual film awards show is still the best. Tuesday March 17th sees the biggest event in the OVFM calendar in which the hard work and creativity of OVFM club members are rewarded with polished up bits of shrapnel with the names of previous winners carved into them. As …
Read More “OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday March 17th 2014 – OVFM OSCARS!!”
We kick off the month of March (already? Can you believe it?) by handing over the reigns of the club meeting to one of our long standing members, Jim Morton-Robertson! Jim, one quarter of the Kemsing Mafia, has been making films for over fifty years – or half a century in old money – …
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 …