Explain how the text has been constructed to create meaning

 Easy Rider (1969):

In this short clip of the movie, there is a series of shots that get are edited to be increased faster to signify the acid trip taking place on the actors and how quickly the drug can start to effect you mentally. As the shots go on, there are hand held shots of tree branches from below, looking up and spinning. This shot could be seen as a point of view from the actors after the acid has started to take effect or a representation of how the drug can effect your brain into creating illusions. The shot with the sun could represent how drugs can effect you overtime and make you lose your sense of time all together as you are constantly having illusions so time of day flies by as your brain gives you a fake reality. The shot that pans upwards showcasing the building could represent the transition into the afterlife because of the use of drugs or because the scene was filmed in a cemetery this this could also connect.As the camera pans up higher and higher on the building, so are the actors. This camera technique represents the state of the actors during this scene. As well as the shot of the big vibrant red sun, foreshadowing hell as a result of drug abuse. Once the drugs have been taken and start to take effect, the editing pace increasing into shorter snapper shots as well as multiple audios being played at the same time. One audio being diegetic of a woman reading some sort of prayer, which links to what someone might say at a funeral because it was shot in a cemetery. Which could also insinuate to the audience that the drugs lead to the death of one of the actors later on in the film. There is another audio that plays which is non-diegetic and it sounds like an old fashioned radio with a static like background to it, this could link to the actors pasts that they may be reminiscing on. A lot of the shorter clips are hand held and i believe the director did this technique because it gives the scene a more chaotic and realistic point of view as if the viewer had taken the acid too, which makes the audience feel as if they are in the movie and are their with the actors, experiencing what they are experiencing. After researching, I found out that the actors did actually take real acid in this clip because they wanted to show the real genuine experience on camera, so their performance was as realistic as possible. The lighting of the four actors in the cemetery at the beginning is not very bright however once they take the drugs, a lot more natural sun light and sun rays are show on camera. This could be a representation of how drugs can change your way of looking at your life because they can make you see illusions or how people say they feel happier when they are on drugs, an escapism from reality that overall messes your brain mentally and physically.