Representasi Reintroduksi Satwa dalam Film Postcards From The Zoo (Analisis Semiotika Christian Metz)

Abstract

The Representation of Animals Reintroduction in Film Postcards from The Zoo: Christian Metz’s Film Semiotics Theory. This research aims to perceive how the animals reintroduction symbols is represented in Postcards From The Zoo film. This descriptive qualitative research is made to describe the representation of animals reintroduction which consists of three stages of reintroduction process: (1) socialization (adaptation cages),(2) adaptation, and(3) releases. The source is the film by Edwin entitled Postcards From The Zoo (2012) which was produced by Babibutafilm. The objects of this research are several segments from the film which is obtained from Christian Metz’s semiotic theory, or known as The Large Syntagmatic Category of Image Track, consists of eight syntagmatic types: (1) autonomous shot, (2) parallel syntagma, (3) bracket syntagma, (4) descriptive syntagma, (5) alternate syntagma, (6) scene, (7) episodic sequence, and (8) ordinary sequence. The research results indicate that there are 20 segments represent the animals reintroduction from a total of 63 segments contained in the Postcards From The Zoo film. The first stage of animal reintroduction process or the socialization stage (adaptation cage), is described through 7 segments in the form of autonomous shot, scene, episodic sequence, and ordinary sequence. Then, the adaptation stage is described through 7 segments in the form of autonomous shot (with subdivisions of single sequence shot and explanatory insert), parallel syntagma, bracket syntagma, scene and episodic sequence. The releases stage is represented through 8 segments with the types of autonomous shot, scene, episodic sequence, and ordinary sequence.s.