Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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When I was very young, my Dad once said to me “If you don’t ask, you don’t learn”, which confused me because when I asked him where babies came from he clipped me round the ear and told me to mind my own business! Of course as we get older we learn the right questions …
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends” A new year means a new start for the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! Once again the names of all OVFM club members have been put into the hat belonging to our competitions organiser Brenda Wheatley and …
THE RESULTS Hello and welcome to the annual OVFM Oscars Results report. The 2014 OVFM Oscars took place in front of a bored audience at the Barnard Room, St Augustine’s Church on a somewhat chilly night but that didn’t stop them dressing up in their best glad rags for the events. Actually it did stop …
“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway” Well they have nothing compared to the luminescence of the OVFM Oscars, especially those Yanks who are trying to steal our thunder by hosting their thrupenny bit knockoff version two days before ours! The biggest event in the OVFM calendar arrives on March 4th where the …
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with Spring Park Sharing can be a good thing. A rewarding thing. it can help us out of a sticky situation by helping carry the load of a problem or it can lead to the widening of the horizons. If we don’t share things like information and knowledge then we as people and a society …
This week’s club meeting was originally going to feature a talk from a chap named Andrew Bishop who had to pull out, so we are grateful to our very own Colin “Colin” Jones for stepping up to the plate in Andrew’s place. Colin will be discussing animation, a subject I am sure many of …
OVFM Spring Show 2014 We’ve reached that time of year again when OVFM invites our members, their families and guests from outside the club to join us in celebrating the days getting brighter, the weather is getting warmer and the trees and plants in bloom once again. As ever we will be to …
This post is being relayed to you in a low voice apropos to the subject matter so if you have difficulty understanding it, please move closer to your screen or monitor for better results. READY NOW? THEN WE’LL BEGIN!! Our next meeting sees the results of our latest project “Silent”, the criteria …
The annual SERIAC film festival is soon upon us with this year’s event taking place on April 5th 2014 at Oast Theatre Tonbridge! The closing date for entries is January 31st and the entry form can be downloaded from HERE! For further information on SERIAC and other film festivals visit their website : http://www.seriac.org.uk/festivals.html Good …
Jingle Bells, Spring Park Smells Simon laid an egg Freddy B poured hot tea Over Mike Shaw’s head OI! It’s amazing how quickly the time passes but yes, it was a year ago we last converged on the Garden Rooms of St Augustine’s to celebrate the festive season where Sam treated us to …