Vingt Minutes (1999)

Concept and creative process

Titles for a secondary schools French series in which a young man's video diary showed the challenge of being a young, first time visitor to France. The passage of 20 minutes in the title ‘Vingt Minutes’ was depicted through the motion of a metronome.  It was combined with an arcing countdown of the numbers seen against an abstracted top shot and other striking angles of the metronome, colourised and lit with dramatic lighting effects in digital post-production.