There is an important event coming soon in Oslo for cinematographers. The Oslo Digital Cinema Conference is an opportunity to know better and share experiences in digital cinematography.

The Oslo Conference organized by IMAGO and the Norwegian Film Institute is one of the most interesting events to take place this year.

The whole Conference will be concentrated on various aspects of digital cinematography. Debates, experimental tests, screenings, presentations, sharing experiences all of it will be covered by the conference. Please take a look at the program below.

IMAGO has been following with much interest this new technology. The Federation is a member of the EDCF and found to be the right time to organize such workshop to know in detail how to create new images and new forms of expression with new digital technology. IMAGO is proud to be able to organize along with the collaboration of its partners the first technical conference in its history. The interested involved from the Norwegian Film Institute as a main partner in this IMAGO organization, demonstrates the importance that digital cinematography has for the future of image.

There are a limited number of attendants for this conference/workshop

DIGITAL CINEMA CONFERENCE
Oslo, Norway, May 5th and 6th 2006

Location:
Norwegian Film Institute, Dronningens gate 16, Oslo, Norway

Friday May 5th

Moderators: John French BSC / Andreas Fischer-Hansen DFF

10.00 Welcoming the Conference.
Ms. Vigdis Lian , President Norwegian Film
Institute, and Mr Andreas Fischer-Hansen , President IMAGO

10.10 EDCF introduction:
John Graham , General Secretary, European
Digital Cinema Forum.

10.20 History of digital cinema:
Lasse Svanberg Swedish Film Institute.

Pre-production

10.45 High Definition TV medium and the Digital Cinema Medium:
Facts and fiction Shooting on film or digital equipment: Pros and cons. Discussion with three European cinematographers. Moderator: Kommer Kleijn SBC

11.30 Deciding equipment:
HD-cameras presentation Grass Valley Viper, Arriflex D-20, Panasonic Varicam and others.

13.15 Lunch Shooting period

14.15 Tests screening "StEM": Dalsa 4K and Arri D-20 3K camera compared with film. SMPTE tests with comparing film and HD video.

14.45 The DOPs control over "look" and colour management
John Chr. Rosenlund DOP How to establish bulletproof colour management and metadata database for the project: Presentation of software "Kframe OnSet"

15.25 The future of film: Kodak presents it thoughts for the future of filmmaking. Presentation of Kodak KLMS software

15.50 Today and the future: 0-point in color management, 2K, 4K, 6K. 10 Bit and 16 Bit colour depth – or floating 16 Bit – 25, 30, 50 or 60 frames per second- results for the creative possibilities.

16.30 The digital production of "Black Night": DOP Louis-Philippe Capelle

Camera workshop / demonstration

17.00 HD Camera in depth workshop. Cameras present: Grass Valley Viper, Arriflex D-20, Panasonic Varicam and others. (Until 21.00)

Screening

19.00 Cinema Screening of "Black Night" CamerImage award winning film shot on the Viper FilmStream camera.

21.00 Cinema Screening "Sin City"

Saturday May 6th

Digital postproduction

10.00 The Digital postproduction of "Sin City "

10.30 Digital intermediate and tools: Lustre, Nucoda, DaVinci and others Lars Palmqvist , Digital Film Lab Copenhagen

11.00 The DI Pipeline, customizing it on a project basis. Peter Doyle

11.45 The DI process from the lab´s point of view. CineVator, new printer from hard disk video to negative/print in real-time 2K.

12.30 Lunch Projection systems / Cinemas

13.30 Cinemas of the future and the standards to come. Revolusionary new compression systems on its way? Peter Wilson, Chairman EDCF Tech. Module.

14.00 Flexibility in Cinema Projection Frame Rates: An opportunity not to miss. Kommer Kleijn IMAGO EDCF repr.

14.20 Digital projection: Screening demonstration of new 2K and 4K projectors.

15.00 Digital Cinema in th UK. Thomas Høegh , who has established several digital cinemas in Britain, talks about his experiences with digital cinema.

15.30 The World´s largest D-Cinema interoperability trial: "NORDIC".
Patric von Sychowski , Unique Digital Ltd Storing digital images for the future

16.00 The problem of storing our films for the future generations. Hard-disk, optical or analogue 35mm film storage?



Camera workshop/demonstration

16.30 HD Camera in depth workshop. Cameras present: Grass Valley Viper, Arriflex D-20, Panasonic Varicam and others. (Until 21.00)



Screening

19.00 Cinema HD Screening 4K

21.00 Cinema Screening 2K

For any enquiries for attendance please see contacts below:

Conference administration:

IMAGO
Paul René Roestad, IMAGO General Secretary
c/o Laterna Magica as
Postbox 118 Roa, Telephone +47 2292 0140
0701 Oslo, Norway
Email : laterna@laterna.no
Bank account (Norway): 7087.05.07087
Bank account (Intl./IBAN): NO27 7087 0507 087