The Slippery Snatch

The film

An adrenaline junkie decides to commit theft, only to meet karma.

Theft is slightly taboo but easy to commit, which made it a good way to show adrenaline pushing people past their morals. Adrenaline brings euphoria and makes time stretch, shown through snapshot scenes and jump cuts.

The emotion

The emotion we wanted to convey was adrenaline:

• It brings excitement.
• We all seek it, consciously or not.
• It frees us, and distracts us from negativity.
• It shows best through action.

The adrenaline-induced euphoria often makes individuals neglect common sense and the morality of their actions. Hence theft.

Time dilation

Time dilation: in the theory of special relativity, the “slowing down” of a clock as determined by an observer who is in relative motion with respect to that clock.

Shot list

Shots

37

Running time

60s

Average shot

1.6s

Handheld

86%

0s60s

All 37 shots

Shot #	Shot type	Movement	Duration (seconds)
1	Long Shot	Still	3
2	Medium	Still	3x 0.5 = 1.5
3	Close-up	Handheld	2 x 1 = 2
4	Medium	Still	1
5	Establishing	Still	3
6	Medium	Pan to left	2
7	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
8	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
9	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
10	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
11	Close-up	Handheld	1
12	Close-up	Handheld	1
13	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
14	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
15	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
16	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
17	Close-up	Handheld	2
18	Close-up	Handheld	2
19	Medium	Handheld	3
20	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
21	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
22	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
23	Medium	Handheld	0.5
24	Close-up	Handheld	0.5
25	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
26	Medium	Handheld	2
27	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
28	Medium	Handheld	2
29	Close-up	Handheld	3
30	Close-up	Handheld	8
31	Close-up	Handheld	1
32	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
33	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
34	Extreme close-up	Handheld	0.5
35	Close-up	Handheld	1
36	Long Shot	Handheld	3
37	Close-up	Handheld	9.5

Karma

Karma is built into many belief systems, so it became the balance to the theft: equivalence. Newton’s third law, yin and yang, doing unto others: every culture has some idea of balance.

Behind the scenes

On set

Sound

How we recorded sound for the film.

Recording sound for the film