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Director Study: RAUL GONZO
Director Study: RAUL GONZO
2 Poltergeist Film
3 Poltergeist Film
sic video for My House, Gonzo quite literally keeps the imagery
dark by filming in black and white. He also carries on the bands
paranormal interest by using imagery of floating objects (as if
hinting at ghosts once
again), and video
transmission disturbances.
In this particular video he
also uses lens flare to
given an impression of
distorted film, overall
achieving the same feeling
of disturbed transmission
hinting once more at a
paranormal entity.
6 Lens flare - My House (Music Video)
Throughout PVRIS music
videos Gonzo has used short and sharp jump cuts to different
situations to add more confusion and introduce a fast pace to the
editing that fits well with the fast pace of the bands music. Quite
often Gonzo uses editing that is continuous with the beat of the
music which is successful in connecting the music directly to the
moving image.
In My House in particular there is a section of the song that
slows down significantly in a breakdown. Gonzo changes the pace of
the moving image by shooting under water scenes and making them slow
motion. This achieves a feeling of lucid fluidity that adds to the
atmospheric breakdown in this song in particular.
themselves.