After discovering a rich man is holding a painting inside his house, three small-time thieves decide it is a good idea to steal the painting. However, after failing to plan for the upcoming heist appropriately, the crew is surprised by the presence of a guard on the premises. Improvising a plan to distract the guard, two members of the crew are able to enter the house discreetly and locate the painting. Unfortunately, an unsubtle exit alerts the guard to their presence, and things take a turn for the worst. Regrouping post-heist, the remaining members discuss the next course of action, believing they have escaped.

When brainstorming ideas for our film, we quickly settled on the idea of a heist film, as we believed the fast-paced nature of heist films would work well within the short film format. Although we wanted the film to include elements of humour, the tone of the film is primarily serious. In order to achieve this, we wrote our script before production and carefully planned when we wished to include comedic elements, therefore allowing a larger quantity of the film to consist of intense scenes. We wanted the film to open on what would be chronologically the final scene of the film to create intrigue in our audiences, with the hopes of drawing them into the film in the opening moments. We designed our colour grade to make the opening and final scene appear very warm in contrast to the rest of the film, which is much colder. This was done in order to distinguish between the past and the present. We selected music that would amplify the intensity of the film and help convey the intended emotion to the audience.

Through our collaboration and the mistakes we made along the way, we were able to walk away from this project with a magnitude of experience and filmmaking knowledge that will be used for future projects. We had a lot of fun making this film together and are pleased with the final result. If we get the opportunity someday, we would like to expand on this work and hopefully create Part 2

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By Lachie Priest & Sascha Turner