Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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OR “NEVER WORK WITH CHILDREN, ANIMALS OR DINOSAURS!” Part Two: Rehearsals And The Shoot Finally August 16th arrived once August 15th had left and the first order of the day was rehearsals which took place at my house. Hannah and her mum Alex arrived first, then David and finally Sue. I have to say that …
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT We’re very sorry to announce that we’ve had to cancel the annual club dinner due to insufficient support. Peggy will return all payments at the next club meeting. Thank you.
As the year hurtles ever close towards it conclusion we still have some film business to take care of here at OVFM, in the form of three annual club competitions, created in tribute to past club members. These three very different contests give club members a chance to test their creativity under explicit criteria and …
OR “NEVER WORK WITH CHILDREN, ANIMALS OR DINOSAURS!” Part One: Damn you, Brain! Sometimes I wish I my mind would switch off when we discuss project ideas or here are calls for a film script to suit a competition theme at our club meetings; it always ends with many sleepless nights and unnecessary stress – …
The 2016 North vs South final is upon us, taking place on Sunday December 4th! OVFM has five films entered in to this year’s contest on the theme of “Out Of The Blue” and it has been a while since our name has been on the winner’s list so let’s hope 2016 is our …
We’ve now reached the last of the four qualifying rounds of the annual Top 10 Competition meaning this is the final opportunity club members have to enter their film ahead of the final on January 10th 2017. The remaining listed club invited to submit a film for this round are as follows: Charlie …
Another new film competition for IAC members (and non-IAC members) for the South has been created by Tim Stannard & Alan Colgrave but this one is slightly different. Instead of having to burn a disc buy a jiffy bag then toddle off to the post office to buy the correct stamps in order to send …
Believe it or not we haven’t had a dedicated archive evening since June 24th 2014! There have been a couple of club meetings in between then where the archive helped fill in some time when the allotted films had only taken up half of the meeting but this will be the first time in …
It’s round three of the Top Ten already and last time we had two entries so hopefully we don’t have a commensurate number of films for this session. Perhaps with the summer holidays now over club members will have something to share that documents what they got up to while the sun was out a …
In one of the more egregious cases of “keeping up with the Joneses”, Basil Doody follows in the footsteps of Colin “Colin” Jones by celebrating his 50th Anniversary with OVFM. 1966 was quite the year – Doctor Who fans were stunned when William Hartnell morphed into Patrick Troughton before their eyes; the English football …