Chromaticism influence on Film Aesthetics: Color Grading and visual evolution through digital Technology

Abstract

Cinema faces a critical age for reformulating its ontological basis. Competing with televisión fiction, the digital universe and multimedia devices, Film as an art has refurbish its Aesthetics and spread out different technical innovations in order to adapt its personality to the new social demands. This cultural and aesthetical advance has found in enhanced color-correction technology one of its essential sources. Along its history, Cinema has integrated new aesthetic advances not only for improving its technical authority, but also to take a step forward into audiovisual modernity. However, this attempt to modernize its appearance affects almost entirely its outer surface; given that under this patina of modernity underlie many of the classical features spread out along the History of Cinema. The current paper aims to provide evidence of the constant return to classical filmic postulates through the currently color-correction technology, as well as to discover two distinctive tendencies of the contemporary era: Psychological Expressionism and Chromatic Naturalism. Both factors, facilitated by digital chromatic correction, will offer innovation to the standardized vision of colour treatment.