Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
News about latest club meetings
For our next club meeting we shall be inviting another member of the film making community to come to our humble meeting place to share their wisdom and advice with us. The guest speaker this time is no stranger to OVFM having paid us a visit in the past. know for his technical expertise …
with Spring Park A recent annual tradition between OVFM and our friends at Spring Park Film Makers is to share an evening between our two clubs with each taking it in turn to screen a short programme of our films. The pattern is to alternate the hosting of this event and last year saw Spring Park do the …
Yes it is another project evening this time devoted to an old favourite – the Green Screen! We’ve had some fun before exploring the wonders of filming before a green screen and messing about with fun backgrounds and other aspects this technique affords us to great effect so this night shouldn’t be any different. Unfortunately I cannot …
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’ …
This week’s meeting will see another screening of films that come from outside our club but the standard will just as high, as the IAC logo above might have already indicated to you. The governing body of all amateur film clubs across the UK is involved in many film competitions across the country and even …
OVFM Spring Show 2015 The year has gone so quickly, it is hard to believe that OVFM is once again holding its annual Spring film Show! Now the days are getting brighter, the weather (hopefully) is getting warmer and the colour is returning to the leaves on the trees, we will be to marking this occasion by …
2014 NORTH v SOUTH GRAND FINAL REPORT An audience of 62 people represented by 12 different clubs turned up at Farnborough Village Hall for the 2014 North v South Grand Final. We were especially pleased to welcome members from Sutton Coldfield Movie Makers and Lowestoft Movie Makers who made the several hours journey to be …
This week’s club meeting will feature a tutorial on the basics of Stop Motion Animation courtesy of our chairman Simon “Snapper” Earwicker! Here’s Simon with a brief overview of what we can expect: “I will regale the club with my knowledge and experience of the ever popular cinematic technique of stop motion animation. So that’s the …
It’s that time were we once again hand over the reins of the club meeting to a guest speaker. This week we will hear from Graham Kirkman who is an award winning dubbing mixer with 15 years experience currently employed by Halo Post, with a range of TV and film projects under his belt including Top Gear, The …
Time flies when you’re having fun but the annual Top Ten competition waits for no man (or woman – and it’s position on children and animals has yet to be made clear) judging by the fact we’ve hit the fourth round already. In the last round we had a healthy six entries (the results …