One continuous, locked-off shot from a small camera fixed low on the dashboard, looking back into the car through the windshield: the inside of a modern car parked on an overcast day: dark grey seats and headrests, a dark dashboard, soft grey daylight through the windows and an open sunroof. Photorealistic, like a real phone video, vertical 9:16. The camera never moves, never zooms and never cuts. The two front seats fill the lower half of the frame, and all three faces are large, sharp and evenly lit.
WHO IS WHO (three adults; the seats come ONLY from the photo order, never from gender; nobody changes seats):
THE THIEF = the person in [Image 1]: in the middle of the back seat, between and behind the two front seats, the face fully visible between the headrests.
THE DRIVER = the person in [Image 2]: in the driver's seat on the RIGHT of the frame, behind the steering wheel.
THE PASSENGER = the person in [Image 3]: in the front passenger seat on the LEFT of the frame, holding an open red bag of tortilla chips with no logo, no writing and no picture on it.
Each one, in every frame: the exact face from their own image (the face shape, eye color and eye shape, eyebrows, nose, mouth, skin tone, age, hair color, hair length and hairstyle, and any beard, moustache, glasses or freckles), with the hair and clothes from their own image, so their friends know all three at once. Never blend the faces, never swap seats or clothes, never morph. If an image shows an animal, that one is that animal sitting upright in its seat, with its own face, fur and markings, never a person; an animal THIEF grabs the bag with its mouth.
Shot 1 [0-12 s], one take:
[0-3 s] THE PASSENGER happily eats chips from the red bag. THE DRIVER sits with both hands near the wheel, looking ahead. THE THIEF in the back seat stares at the bag.
[3-4.5 s] THE THIEF leans forward between the two front seats, snatches the bag out of THE PASSENGER's hand in one quick move and drops back into the back seat with it, holding the bag in the lap. THE PASSENGER's hand stays in the air for a moment, empty.
[4.5-7 s] Nobody reacts. THE DRIVER and THE PASSENGER calmly pull their seatbelts across the chest and click them in, then sit up straight. THE THIEF pulls the back seatbelt across and clicks it in too, the bag still in the lap.
[7-12 s] All three stare dead ahead, straight past the camera, with blank, deadpan faces, perfectly still, lips closed. Only their eyes blink now and then. Nobody smiles, nobody looks at the others.
Sound: none of its own; a slow saxophone song is put on afterwards. No dialogue throughout the entire video. No background music. Nobody speaks, laughs or sings.
Exactly three in the car, nobody else, no famous person. Five fingers on each hand. Avoid: headbands, wristbands or sportswear unless a photo shows them, a logo or writing on the bag, a car badge, a split screen, text, subtitles, captions, logos, watermarks, extra limbs, morphing.
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