Minimal Units in the Cinematographic Language

Abstract

Most of the pioneer of film semioticians spent their time looking for literal equivalences between linguistic and filmic units. Many discussions about the relation between double articulation and minimal units. Christian Metz is the first among pioneers of film-linguistic. Research problem, Metz says that analyses of the articulation of a “code” like lighting has no equivalent of the double articulation of natural language. So it has no minimal units. That is one of the reasons why Metz considered cinema as a language system not as a language. The research aim: will find out if the lighting has a minimal units or not. By analyses of the articulation of codes in lighting. Research significance: finding out the minimal units in single codes such as lighting assures linguistic cinema. The research follows inferential, descriptive methodology.