The structure of the film image: from expressive language to functional elements An integrated conceptual introduction

Abstract

The film image plays a pivotal role in the film industry, and is considered as the basic structure of the mise en scene action, and in this research paper, we seek to get closer to the nature of the film image, and to deconstruct it into its two basic elements which are the expressive language (also known as the special modes of the cinematic image), as well as its signifying elements (known as the non-special modes), which constitute together the content and essence of the shot’s structure.it’s an attempt to simplify these two elements and facilitate them for researchers, graduate students, and those interested who find great difficulties in understanding the film image and deconstructing its basic units during the completion of their semiological qualitative analytical researches concerned the audiovisual materials analysis in general and the cinematic materials in particular.