Long (4 second) 24fps sequential exposures filmed with Timetrack 160 lens camera and 75 film SLRs. Director Tony Scott wanted something visually unique to use as a transition from satelite surveilance footage into the human world of the film's "Time Window."


We based the concept for this technique on a spot for Orange that we did with Chris Cunningham. The major difference was that for DEJA VU time progressed at 24 fps even as the exposures were 4 seconds long - so you have a unique combination of stretched time and time still flowing.


Because the exposures were so long, the moving actors had to be lit much brighter than the background or they would disappear, so a spotlight was mounted on a technocrane that followed Paula Patton ('Claire') as she traveresed the set.