Hi there. Long story short, for some reason in college I'm seeing a class called Semiotics, I think somehow on interpretation of images, it helps when it comes to filmmaking. What so ever, even if I really want to understand this class, I couldn't. Unfortunately I can't put the lectures or text books here because all are in Spanish, and they're not translating any English books, they're original on my language

However it's not necessary that you all give me an overview of these texts, I just want to understand the subject itself.

Here's what I've understood: Basically, it's the interpretation of signs, images or anything that we can see, could be a photograph, a film shot, meme, and so on. Why can we understand these images? Besides our languages, we have contexts, and these contexts could be by our experience, our culture and our knowledge on how we relate these to the subjects illustrated in the images.

What my professor tells me is that all this is important for creating a meaning in what we do in filmmaking. Yes, could be related to other subjects like cinematography or any that you could imagine or know if you're studying this career. But more deeply, that we should know how to create meaning and be conscious about it, so we could expand our creativity on creating meanings.

Maybe you could see that I have something here, but still, after lots of lectures, I'm in this position where I understand all I'm reading but at the same time it's like "Wait, I don't get it and I don't know how to overview this shit". And there's a lot of concepts to get into or to memorize that now I'm just lost.

So, just like.. I don't know, literally like any subject. How do I get started with this? How by baby steps, can I increase more and more the complexity from zero 'til the absolute understanding of complicated text like the ones I'm reading?

Right now I just read Agential Semiotics (?) (I don't know if that's a proper translation), and after lots of pages, I'm just lost.