Learning of two semiotic concepts for movies’ analysis

Abstract

Semiotics is the science that studies communication systems within human societies by analyzing the general properties of sign systems as a basis for the understanding of all human activity. The objective of this text is to present a semiotic analysis of a short movie, El más fuerte (the strongest one), from the movie Wild Tales (2014), using two concepts: ocularization and auditive representation, with which the movie narrator, through the choice of planes, angles, music and time, among others, tells a story. To achieve this, we use two great exponents of film semiotics: Jost, Metz and Paz Gago, who throughout their lives have made different contributions to semiotic studies of cinema. For them, cinema allows new ways of hearing, seeing, feeling and thinking, because it requires multiple ways for the elaboration of its meaning. By way of conclusion, it can be affirmed that the mentioned concepts, if taken to secondary school classrooms, may enable students to recognize how extra-linguistic aspects influence the intention of discourses and the construction of their meaning.