Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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THE OVFM COMMITTEE ELECTIONS 2017 Every ship needs an engine to help drive it forward and for OVFM that would be the Committee – a select few who work diligently all year round to ensure the club has a purpose, a direction, and takes care of the administrative matters that keep OVFM alive. The …
“It’s a mystery! Oh it’s a mystery” Toyah Wilcox sung those words back in 1981 and who would have thought they would be applicable to an OVFM club meeting in 2017? If you consult the calendar on this site you will see that the original plan for this meeting was to have been devoted …
Another annual inter-club competition is upon us, this time it is the Triangle Competition in which three of four clubs – OVFM, Spring Park, Shooters Hill and Epsom – enter films in a three-way contest to be judged by the fourth, with the judging role alternating each year. This year’s event take place on Friday …
OVFM Spring Film Show 2017 One of the most important dates in the OVFM calendar is our annual Spring Show where we share the fruits of our labours from a year of busy filmmaking, along with some gems from our archive. What better way to celebrate the days getting lighter and warmer than with evening of …
To kick off the second month of the year in the club calendar we take a look at the films you have (hopefully) made as part of our latest project Valentines, as originally announced last month HERE. Whether you are celebrating the notion of love and romance, or denouncing the shameless consumerism of what …
Since the weather outside is frightful and I’m sure you’ve all been somewhere more delightful in the past year, now is the time to share your trips to sunnier climes and your memories with the club in our annual holiday films session. Whether you’ve strolled on the beaches of Barbados or feasted on the …
Valentines Love is in the air Every sight and every sound Rather apt lyric there from John Paul Young’s 1977 classic disco hit Love Is In The Air where OVFM is concerned as the next project the Legion Of Doom have come up with for us is Valentines. Yes, that annual event where consumer …
Happy New Year to you all! With the festive season now over with and the huge haemorrhoid that was 2016 now consigned to the dustbin of time, we welcome 2017 with open arms. However here at OVFM there is still some unfinished with last year, namely the annual Top Ten competition. The qualifying rounds …
OR “NEVER WORK WITH CHILDREN, ANIMALS OR DINOSAURS!” Part Three: Editing And Lessons Learned Typically films aren’t shot in chronological order and this was no different although we did start close to the running order for the early scenes, seeing as Dexter wasn’t due to arrive until a little later. In hindsight one shot we …
Ding dong please don’t cry It’s time for the Christmas Social Just in case you haven’t heard why It’s always controversial Woah-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh Oh no, here comes the local police force! The end of the year means we get to say goodbye to this humungous turd sandwich of a year …