Steal Away Part 1

Steal Away Part 2

Steal Away opened up in the style of a 'Bank heist' crime genre of film with the upbeat, mysterious sounding music.

Within a minute the climax begins following the codes and conventions of a quick equilibrium in short film.

The audiences expectations are constantly challenged throughoput the short film as the camera quickly moves from one focus to another. It goes from a POV of the driver onto following the female protagonist. It is then that an exaggerated slowed down effect is used showing the fear on her face. Later in the film the light flicks on and off when the protagonist is 'cleansed' to symbolise his sins being forgiven The convention of special effects is typically used in short film to emphasise emotion or an event in a short space of time.

There is a lot of subtle symbolism used throughout steal away, however the meaning doesn't become completely evident until the end. The bright and harsh lighting used in the tunnel and on the train represents heaven and the 'white light' seen before reaching heaven. When the couple are escaping, they go down several flights of stairs,representing that they are going down to hell.
The earlier religious iconography of the cross hanging from the car also becomes more understandable by the end of the film.

Colour is used to represent sin on the stolen money and the protagonists. At the end when it becomes apparent that the protagonist has died, itleaves the audience thinking about religion and sings. Messages and ideology is a convention used in short film and i think this short film managed to do this particularly well.