Huh?

Focal Peripheral Contextual (?)

I was slightly confused over todays lecture. Started off talking about 'where is the narrative?' in last weeks film (Homicide), only understanding 'an anti-semitic conspiracy' as one of the points, which then somehow lead on to the relationships between things. I was going to state them on here as I made notes of them, but to me I feel I gained nothing from it.

Ok, so I did learn 'what are things?' apparently anything and everything is a signifier, (semiotics):

Signifier:What it is

Signified:What it means

A signifier achieves meaning (becomes a signified) through its relationships to other signifiers.

?????

But still, why do I need to know this? If I'm missing the point then feel free to fill me in, but I want to learn something that will benefit me in the course.

ALSO - Field of View, Timecode:Mike Figgis, 2000.

This film was interesting in the way it had four different perspectives to view at once, which you could only really follow by the audio, although sometimes two were playing at once! I think we only really needed to view a 5 minute clip to value from this. The hour and a half didn't really serve much purpose, especially as the storyline was quite dull.