El silencio de la imagen. Cómo se construye el silencio en los medios audiovisuales.

Abstract

Silence is another tool in the audiovisual medium, but it is mostly used without thinking about it as such. However, its conscious use can result in a creative, contrasting audiovisual product that invites participation and reflection, and calls for the creation of conscious and consciousness-raising cinema. To investigate this use, we must first define it and frame it within the world of audiovisual media. Based on this research, I aim to be able to frame the conscious and creative use of silence, as well as contribute to this idea that silence is a tool in audiovisual development. To understand and attempt to define silence, up to its creation on screen. In our daily lives, the total absence of sound does not exist; silence is a subjective perception of hearing, which changes, among other things, depending on the time and culture of the viewer. Therefore, silence in the audiovisual medium cannot be represented by removing all sounds from the soundtrack. Silence is constructed either from sonic contrasts or from small sounds that are conventions of silence, those we hear only when higher-decibel sounds or those that demand greater attention are silenced. This is how this tool has been used so creatively in film and audiovisual arts.