Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
News about latest club meetings
Okay folks it’s deadline time! The night has finally arrived where the fruits of your labours are shared with the rest of the club for our latest project evening and our first one for 2014 on the theme of GREEN! Since we gave you notice about this topic many months ago hopefully you have …
Congrats to our very own Professor Mike Shaw and his partners in Footprints Productions for their recent big win at this year’s SERIAC Film Festival . The film in question was Enid Blyton – The Beckenham Years , a seven year labour of love for Mike and his collaborators from Spring Park which received a record four …
This week’s meeting is a little different for OVFM as it has nothing to do with us! Okay that is a little glib but on this occasion we are playing host to the 2014 Triangle competition, while three other clubs will put their films up for judging while drinking our tea and eating our biscuits! …
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Frome Five Minute Festival 2014 Report by Mike Coad On Saturday, Jo and I went down to Somerset for the annual Frome Five Minute Festival organised by Frome Film & Video Makers. It is now almost as old as I am, being in its 23rd year and is an annual pilgrimage for us. It …
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 …