Summer Task One

The scene opens with a medium four shot of two men and two women sat in a graveyard, this combined with the use of a hand held cam, diegetic sound and natural lighting give a sense of verisimilitude for the audience, this is also helped by the use of a long take without a cut until they take the acid. After the taking of the drugs that's when the scene starts switching to constant jump cuts with extremely short takes, this represents what taking acid would be like with different images switching back and fourth in their minds. The dialogue of the women is a paragraph from the bible, and this paired with the setting of the graveyard gives the connotation of a religious subtext, and the reference that taking the drugs brings them closer to god and the far zooms in on the sun suggest that the film is trying to .

 The camera techniques used in the scene all go against the common standards of cameras in film, for example the long takes give the scene more realism and let the audience connect with the characters, As well as this the pointing of the camera at the sun creating lens flares creates a new wave of techniques that change the film industry, as it reminds the audience that the film is in fact only a film and not as connecting and realistic as past films. The clothing and method acting all also go against the common filming techniques and they show the audience the reality of films more instead of creating a false narrative for them to follow as was standard in previous films. Being filmed in the 60s the clothing of the characters shows that clearly, such as the man on the right wearing the brown overcoat and brown headband with iconic hippie style long natural hair, and before this film that style of clothing was rarely represented in cinema.

A lot of this inspiration comes from the era of french new wave where a lot of the new American directors were taking influence from the french directors with their odd and unique shooting techniques that broke all the rules of filming. Such as the use of long takes just pointing at actors, and using hand held camera only, making it seem more real and connection and less staged.