The Coin: Assistant on Camera/Sound

I was an assistant on the filming set project: The Coin. A short script about a girl, Patricia and a boy called John searching for photos of students from the past for the current website for the University of Bolton. Patricia finds a photo that matches John, a flashback occurs of a photographer taking a photo of John. The twist is his lucky coin that keeps him young forever.

Helping out on set was a joyful experience since i got to give my ideas, help other people and have ago on two seperate pieces of equipment too see which i liked best:

The flashback scene:

This particular bit in the film was the most important, since it mainly explained what the film was about and the twist that the film had. I suggested the flashback scene to either be grainy or black and white to connote the past.

Sound:

• music 
• sound effects
• voices

These must be balanced correctly, or one or the other may be more dominant depending what emotional you are trying to portray. Sound is much more important than people may think, for this filming process i suggested we mainly use diegetic sound- since there is a lot of dialogue and the dialogue mainly tells the story; very important in the coin since there is not much emotion displayed within the script. 

Too improve/ideas:

To have used more synchronous sounds too our advantage. merging and the synchronizing sounds of the door opening to the stockroom, coin rolling, camera flashing increasing the volume of these three things would show the audience that they are important to the story line (opening the stockroom- raises questions, coin rolling- something special about the coin, camera flashing- showing he is frozen in time/ a time loop). this would help the audience engage with the situation more.