Cinematography as a Transmitter of Pictorial Imagery in Filmmaking

Abstract

[EN] Strictly speaking, we must consider that a film constructs images. We know that humans have been creating them for almost two thousand years, so it seems logical to assume that the cinematic image should maintain a relationship with the visual legacy that has preceded it. The concatenation of mental constructions in pictorial images has developed over the years, with the flat images of ancient societies giving way to more complex and vivid representations in both the second half of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, taking the imagination to unprecedented levels. It was from the Baroque period onwards that the era of exuberance arrived, giving rise to what would come next, the -isms, which would help to complete the foundations of the fundamental elements of study in this work: framing; light and, consequently, color; textures and atmospheres.