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OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday November 12th 2013

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OVFM SCRIPTWRITING EVENING

 

Over the past couple of years our entries for the annual North vs South competition, as well as the Coaching Evenings, has seen an emergence of club members starting to write their own scripts, which is encouraging as our drama/comedy output is somewhat dwarfed in relation to holiday, documentary and sundry films that don’t rely on a scripted structure.

However – there is always a “however” – it is evident that some extra guidance is needed on the actual mechanics of scriptwriting and more importantly the formatting of the scripts to make them better looking and easier for others to understand and follow. This latter facet may not seem important on the surface but trust me, it is.

Therefore we bring you this evening dedicated to exploring the world of scriptwriting further, looking at structure, characters, dialogue, description and direction notes and answering any questions you may have. And to make matters worse, your’s truly (yes me – the world’s worst public orator) will attempt to bring you a live demonstration of the wondrous (and free) script writing tool Celtx (which I have promoted elsewhere on this site) which hopefully will enlighten you to the benefits of using this tool over MS Word and encourage you all (well, some of you) to give it ago and produce a professional looking script for your future productions.

Hope to see you all there (or not, so I don’t have to embarrass myself in front everyone)!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday October 29th 2013

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Just two days before you all don your scariest costumes and go disturbing your neighbours by begging for sweets in the fashion influenced by an age old American tradition (who else could create something so annoying?) in celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, there is the small matter of the next OVFM club meeting which takes in not one, not two but THREE of our long standing annual competitions – The Mike Turner Plate, The Kath Jones Cup and The Vic Treen Trophy

A quick reminder of what is expected for each one:

 

The Mike Turner Plate is open to films with a maximum running time of one minute (or 60 seconds for those of you watching in black and white) on any subject, style or genre. Exceed this time limit and we’ll send the lads round to have a quiet word with you!

The Vic Treen Trophy is a film set to music although we hope you’ll be a bit more creative with the timing and editing of the music to match the beats or the tempo of the soundtrack, rather than just slapping a bit of Slayer or Jay-Z over footage of your holiday in Syria.

The Kath Jones Cup requires a comedy film of no longer than five minutes that has a definitive punchline to it; in other words a short comic sketch if you will. And make it funny. if you can’t just film someone falling over – that always seems to get a laugh.

 

Each film shown will then be scored by the club members with their top three personal favourites (should the number of films exceed this total) ranked in order of preference in their respective categories on the night with the winners to be announced at the Oscars next year.

Please reply to this post if you will be providing a film for any or all of the competitions (you are not limited to just one, you can enter all of them if you so desire), along with the running time, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and media format (DVD, Mini DV, etc) as well as which competition it applies to. This is a tremendous help in planning out the time allotment of the meeting.

Good luck to all who enter their films this year. Here’s to a potentially fun and bopping evening!!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday October 15th 2013

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This is it folks – the final qualifying round of the annual Top Ten competition!

It has to be said that the response to this year’s competition has been disappointing with just twelve, yes TWELVE entries over the past four rounds. We know some people leave it to the last minute but we didn’t expect most of you to leave it to the last minute! To that end we hope to have a last minute surge of contributions to boost the entry total (otherwise the final will be a short one)  but not too many or we’ll never be able to view and judge them all.

Members who have been drawn to provide entries for this round are:

 

Charlie & Nellie Caseley

Richard & Jess Pugh

Ian Menage

Freddy Beard

Simon Earwicker

Hugh Darrington

Peggy Parmenter

John Ransley

Colin Jones

 

Please reply to this post if you will be providing a film at this week’s session, along with the running time, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and media format (DVD, Mini DV, etc). This is a tremendous help in planning out the time allotment of the meeting.

If you don’t then have a film ready please let Brenda Wheatley know so that she can try to find someone else to fill the gap in the evening. If you missed your given round please bring your film along to this session, but it will only be shown after those drawn for that round, if there is time.

The results from the previous rounds can be found HERE.

Good luck to everyone who enters a film!

OVFM Conquers Kent Film Festival 2013!!

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OVFM Conquers Kent Film Festival 2013!!

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Members of Orpington Video & Film Makers collected three major trophies and a commendation at the prestigious Kent Film Festival (held Saturday 28th September, in Canterbury).  The winning films were ‘Steam and Smoke’ (Best Photography) by Sam Brown, ‘Village Mosaic’ (Kent Award) by Barbara Darby,  ‘Enid Blyton – the Beckenham Years’ (Best Documentary) by Mike Shaw and Footprint Productions, and ‘Eastbourne ‘ (Commendation) by Mike & Jo Coad.

And the winners are....
And the winners are….

 

Congratulations to all the winners!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday October 1st 2013

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This week’s meeting is a special one as we pay tribute to two of our dearly departed club members, Mike Turner and Derek Allen, both of whom were highly

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prolific film makers.

We will take a look back at some of the films they made, both individually and together, and share our fondest memories of these two much missed members of our club.

It is hoped that members of Mike and Derek’s families will be in attendance on Tuesday night and it would be nice if you all were too.

Thank you.

OVFM Autumn Show 2013

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OVFM Autumn Show 2013

 

When the members of OVFM work so hard at producing films it seems only fair that they should get the best showing possible. At club meetings their work is projected onto a large screen, but when we put on a show at an outside venue we’re also able to attract a much larger audience.

Since the success of our annual Spring events we have been able to include this annual Autumn event to our social calendar.

This year’s Autumn Show will take place on  FRIDAY 1st NOVEMBER at 7:00 for 7.30 pm

VENUE –  Methodist Church, 19 Sevenoaks Road, Orpington BR6 9JH

DIRECTIONS – GOOGLE MAP

WEBSITE – http://www.orpingtonmethodist.org.uk/welcome.htm

Club members get in free but for others the tickets are £5 – which includes refreshments – and are available from our secretary Freddy Beard on 01689 813616 or by e-mail at beardfreddy@gmail.com

If you wish to help publicise this event please download this PDF version of the poster HERE

And if you want sample of what to expect at our shows then please take  a look at our showreel on our YouTube page HERE

For an entertaining and sociable evening get your tickets a.s.a.p. and bring along your friends and family!

See you then!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday September 17th 2013

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After the disappointment of just two entries in Round Three of the annual Top Ten competition we hope that now the summer holidays are effectively over that there will be a greater response for round four. We hope you’ve been busy with your cameras catching the sights and sounds of whichever glamorous locale you invaded during this traditional period of getaways and relaxation, and we look forward to seeing the fruits of your cinematic labours.

The members who have been drafted for this round are as follows:

 

Bob Vine

Annabelle Lancaster

Alan Smith

Jim Morton-Robertson

Sam Brown

Andy Watson

Brenda & Roger Wheatley

Pat Palmer

Brian Pfeiffer

Mike Graham

 

Please reply to this post if you will be providing a film at this week’s session, along with the running time, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and media format (DVD, Mini DV, etc). This is a tremendous help in planning out the time allotment of the meeting.

If you don’t then have a film ready please let Brenda Wheatley know so that she can try to find someone else to fill the gap in the evening. If your film is ready early please feel free to bring it along to any Top Ten night and if there is time we will show it.

If you miss your given round you can bring your film along to a later one, but it will only be shown after those drawn for that round, if there is time.

The results from the previous rounds can be found HERE.

Good luck to everyone who enters a film!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday September 3rd 2013

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This week’s meeting sees us handing over the reigns to someone else as we welcome a guest speaker to share their wisdom and knowledge of filmmaking.

Stepping up to the plate is Tim Jones, who will be familiar to some of the longer tenured club members as he was once one of us.

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Tim Jones

Tim, son of Colin Jones, nephew of Thorvald Nlodvisson, the son of Gudleif, half brother of Thorgier, the priest of Ljosa water, who took to wife Thurunn, the mother of Thorkel Braggart, the slayer of Cudround the powerful, who knew Howal, son of Geernon, son of Erik from Valdalesc, son of Arval Gristlebeard, son of Harken, who killed Bjortguaard in Sochnadale in Norway over Cudreed, daughter of Thorkel Long, the son of Kettle-Trout, the half son of Harviyoun Half-troll, father of Ingbare the Brave, who with Isenbert of Gottenberg the daughter of Hangbard the Fierce, first joined OVFM when he was just a foetus and was making films before he could even walk. After graduating from nappies Tim won his first SERIAC award and became the one of the youngest members ever of the IAC to become a Fellow. Now able to walk by himself and earn his own pocket money, Tim is a senior lecturer at Christ Church College Canterbury in the Film and TV department, which is located round the back of the main building next to the dustbins.

Tim will be sharing with us memories of his time as an OVFM club member along with an illustrated talk on the origins of amateur film making. And if there is time perhaps we could encourage father and son to recreate their famous fan dance that won them second place in the “All Comers Humiliate Yourself For A Plastic Trophy Worth About 2 Pence” contest at Butlins in 1974 (narrowly beaten by Pinky the flatulent hamster).

You have been warned.

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday August 20th 2013

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Our annual Top Ten competition continues at this week’s club meeting with round number three.

So far we’ve had a total of eight entries in the competition – four each for the first two rounds – which isn’t bad but could be better.

Can we add to the total with a higher number of entries in this round? Let’s look and see who has been chosen to participate in round three:

 

Reg Lancaster

Malcolm Goodwin

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Sylvia Snipp

Basil Doody

Cherie Hamlet-Smith

Frank Hyde

Ann and John Epton

Peter Mitchell

Chris Coulson

 

Please reply to this post if you will be providing a film at this week’s session, along with the running time, picture ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and media format (DVD, Mini DV, etc). This is a tremendous help in planning out the time allotment of the meeting.

If you don’t then have a film ready please let Brenda Wheatley know so that she can try to find someone else to fill the gap in the evening. If your film is ready early please feel free to bring it along to any Top Ten night and if there is time we will show it.

If you miss your given round you can bring your film along to a later one, but it will only be shown after those drawn for that round, if there is time.

The results from the previous round can be found HERE.

Good luck to everyone who enters a film!

OVFM Club Meeting Tuesday August 6th 2013

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OVFM Advert II

 

This week’s club meeting is another project evening and a follow-up on one from 2011, where we asked you to create some promo clips that will hopefully encourage and entice new comers to join our humble group. Unlike making a short film for entertainment purposes this is a chance to show off your persuasive skills and selling techniques and OVFM is the product you have to sell to the many amateur filmmakers in the Orpington and surrounding area who have yet to learn about our existence.

And if time is permitting, the results of the two recent Coaching Evening sessions will be screened for our delectation and discussion.