Imago members from France, Romania, Australia and the United Kingdom assisted the enthusiastic Romanian Society of Cinematographers in staging a successful three day Master Class for their members and students in Bucharest.

Organised by RSC President Alex Sterian and Diana Apostol from Panalight and assisted by Imago this first major event for the young Romanian Society was a fine example of co-operation between Societies on an International basis.

Generously supported by Arriflex with the presence of Bill Lovell , who demonstrated the D21 and P&S Technik who brought Carlos Alvarez from Germany with the popular Si2K. The purpose of the event which included the use of film on an Arri 435 was to show the performance of the three cameras in a studio environment and follow the results through post production.

The scenes were lit by Tudor Lucaciu RSC, Jean-Louis Viallard AFC , Ivan Tonev BAC and Marius Panduru RSC in the studio of the UNATC of Bucharest. This gave the students from the five cinematography schools present and RSC members a unique opportunity to view the D21 and Si 2K in operation and subsequently follow the post through to the Grading stage.

A “hands on” session presented by Josef Demian RSC from Australia and Rodrigo Gutierrez Associate BSC enabled an interaction between the students, cinematographers and cameras.

Another session dedicated to post-production, colour correction, and DI was illuminated by Jacques Delacoux from Transvideo who explained the working of 3D on his high quality monitors.

Kodak Cinelabs Romania showed the latest 250asa Daylight stock to the participants. Holger Schwarzel, the European Product Manager from Hamburg showed a Kodak camera evaluation test shot recently by BvK members in Germany.
On the final day the results of the filming were projected and discussed.