Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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This week’s club meeting will see OVFM welcoming ITV cameraman Gary Mullins who will be regaling us with tales and anecdotes from his career as a TV cameraman. Unfortunately I don’t have any further information on Mr. Mullins or a picture to share with you; in fact when I did a Google search for …
Laughter and Tears at the first Coaching Evening! Tuesday the 18th October marked the opening salvo in the barrage of six evenings devoted to improving camera and film making skills in all those ready, willing and eager to learn, and what an evening it was! With Ian as Compere, Master of Ceremony, Big Honcho and …
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FINAL ROUND!! And so the final round of this year’s competition is upon us. We’ve seen some interesting films thus far although it is fair to say that the response has been little underwhelming, with the highest number of films submitted for one session being just five (in the last round, the results …
Kent Film Festival 2011 Results by Mike Turner As Chairman of the Kent Film Festival, I was delighted that so many OVFM members attended this event and I would like to thank you for your support especially if you also entered a film We always try to show as many films as possible and …
An Epic Tale of an Epic Tale by Anna Littler (click on images to see them full size) Part 4: The Premiere for Blitz and Bananas Although it’s 6 months away, we’re already focussing on organising the Premiere and would value your thoughts on this as we need to make important decisions. We have …
OVFM Coaching Evenings October 2011/Early 2012 As some of you are already aware, club member Ian Menage has been organising a series of coaching evenings in order to help improve the quality of film making for our club members or to offer some guidance for the new or easily intimidated film maker. With the help …
Last month our chairman Chris Coulson announced the latest club project “Something I’ve Always Wanted To Do”. If you need a reminder of that then click HERE. This week we see the fruits of your labours as we host the screening of your films sharing your secret ambitions. I just hope there is nothing to …
STOP PRESS!! OVFM HITS THE HEADLINES! Some of you may not know that aside from being Mrs. Club President and an aspiring cage fighter, Annabelle Lancaster is also OVFM’s press officer. This past week Annabelle scored a coup for the club by getting us featured in three different local publications with a feature on …
An Epic Tale of an Epic Tale by Anna Littler (click on images to see them full size) PART 2 – The Bickley shoot At our latest big shoot in Bickley we had about 50 people involved during the course of the day, including c 25 extras and actors (aged 2 to c 87) including …
DEREK ALLEN The films that made the most impression on me would probably not have the same effect if I saw them to-day, as they are all from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930 – 1940). My parents took me to see THE JAZZ SINGER, the first full-length movie with synchronised sound, but I was …