Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
News about latest club meetings
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 …
OVFM Autumn Show 2014 One of the most important dates in the OVFM calendar is our annual Autumn Show where we share the fruits of our labours from a year of busy filmmaking, along with some gems from our archive with the public. As the nights are getting darker and colder you’ll need something to brighten them …
You may recall that the original plan for this week’s club meeting was to have a guest speaker in Graham Kirkman but unfortunately, due to work commitments Graham had to pull out. So we’ve had to resort to “Plan B” but don’t worry as we have something rather fun line up for you. Because …
Our club members have been busy in between club meetings as ever covering local events for posterity and the club annual newsreel. Thanks to our press officer, Professor Mike Shaw these filming sessions have been publicised by local media. Two recent events have been covered by a good friend of OVFM, Margot Rohan, webmaster of the …
This year we are taking a break from the annual club ramble to embark on something different for our summer gathering. Having considered a number of options the committee decide that the London Film Museum would make for a fascinating and fun day out for the club – we are film makers after all! The …
MEET THE MEMBERS! You’re probably thinking “but we’ve already met!” So what is this all about? Well it’s a long story so I hope you are sitting comfortably. At a recent committee meeting when we were brainstorming ideas for our club meetings to get everyone interested and involved I suggested a practical evening …
This week’s meeting sees us entering the second round of the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! In Round One we received just THREE entries so if anything one objective for this round is to see if we can beat that! You can find the results of that round HERE! As …
One of the many annual traditions for OVFM is the North vs South competition where film clubs from this side of the river do (friendly) battle with film clubs from the other side. While the organising of the event in the north is handled by Altrincham Movie Makers, OVFM are responsible for the south …
You Be The Judge: Trivention Competition 2014 For this week’s meeting we get to play judge for films from other clubs this time under the guise of the 2014 Trivention competition. Similar to the Triangle Competition – except this one understands the concept of “tri” being a derivation of three and not …