Contextual studies easy rider repost

 Easy Rider 

Acid trip scene - http://tinyurl.com/hncmedia 

The scene starts with a static mid shot showing the four characters sitting by a wall outside of a cemetary with suspenseful non-diegetic music playing in the music. The characters in the clip decide to take acid and quickly things begin to change within the scene. The camera then cuts between the mid shot and a panning shot that is looking up towards the top of the church tower while one of the characters is reading something religious which continues throughout the scene. The panning shot keeps moving up to the top of the church and when it reaches the top it is whited out by the light from the sun. The combination of the panning shot and the increasing light can be linked to the characters getting high from the acid they took in that the higher the shot is looking is the higher the characters are feeling until it hits the top of the church tower and being then fully high. The scene then switches to the character reading with a close up for only a few seconds and then quickly to a shot of the sun set which zooms in and loses focus and then back to the character again. The scene then shows one of the characters hanging onto a statue and saying "shut up" which could be in relation to the character reading or it could be related to something he is imagining. The camera then quickly cuts between a formal looking man who could be related to funerals as the camera then cuts to one of the characters walking in between the crypts holding a black umbrella. The mise en scene of the black umbrella and the formal man could symbolise death or that characters relation to deaths. The camera cuts again to a mid shot of crypts and then a close up on a crucifix with Jesus on it. The camera then cuts to the sun set with the non-diegetic music fading out and then to a panning shot with a dutch tilt looking up through a tree and onto a statue. The use of the dutch tilt can be to emphasise the absurdity of a situation  which makes sense in this context as all the characters are high. The camera then moves to a mid shot of one of the characters getting undressed and then cuts to another mid shot of them lying nude on some graves. The camera begins to spin while looking up to the sky and in the background is non-diegetic sound of the characters talking to each other. The scene quickly cuts again to a mid shot of another character sitting in the statues arms holding its hand as the camera zooms in and out on him. The camera is whited out and the camera cuts to a close up on a different statue before switching to some yellow flowers. Throughout the scene the lighting is pretty consistent but it does get very bright at times which can link to the religious aspect of the scene.