Bazin asks, ‘What is Cinema?’, and Metz replies, ‘cinema is a language’.

In Aesthetics & Film Thomson-Jones touches on the codes specific to film and the message of the film to its viewers. I’m thinking about how I can apply a message within my scene; something for my viewers to unravel. I have always been interested in the semiotics of film and thought it would be interesting to focus on semiotics when making my own scene. In pre-production, I aim to think about the connotations of my shots; I want my shots to have symbolic meaning. I’m not thinking quite as deep as Metz when I look into my scene- I don’t feel as though cinema is a language, however, I do like to think about the symbols and meanings in the production and post-production of my scene.

(Thomson-Jones 2008 p. 62)