Central to The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint are flow charts: crystal-clear diagrams detailing every single thing, no matter how small, that needs to be done to make your film. This visual approach to the filmmaking process ensures that new (and established!) filmmakers get an instant overview of each and every discipline. Backing up the diagrams are copious notes - humorous in tone, yet broad and deep in content. Wherever possible, the text is broken apart into box outs, hot tips and sub-diagrams. This book is entertaining, irreverent, and never less than painfully practical. The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint will have its own dedicated website where readers can download the tools, forms, software, and artwork detailed in the book. Jones's latest endeavor is packed with over a decade's worth of experience, know-how, and insider tips. A must-read for every budding filmmaker.
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"Short of offering tips on casting and couch etiquette and how to salt the popcorn, this guide strives to cover every possible step and potential hicup in making your first film. The open layout 0 with easy-to-follow diagrams and flow charts - and conversational text make even the most complicated aspects accessible to the layman, while interviews with industry experts offer practical advice. As a reference guide (and sometime comfort blanket) for wannabe Spielbergs, it's indispensable." 5 stars--Empire Magazine
"Movie Blueprint details absolutely everything you are likely to need to get a low budget picture made. Virtually every problem a filmmaker encounters is covered in depth, even as far as providing recipies for on-set catering! ...It you are going to buy any books to guide you through the low budget filmmaking process, this should be the one...Essential reading for the wannabe film maker." --Camcorder User Magazine
"...this is a meticulous guide to filmmaking on a shoestring....Entertaining anecdotes and ase studies are mixed with far from daunting practical guides on software and shooting equipment."
-Hotdog Magazine
"From paying your crew to putting together a DVD package, Jones discharges his wisdom and experience in chatty, accessible prose. His advice is so pragmatic, it's destines to become required reading from all wannabe filmmakers." 5 stars
--Total Film Magazine
"This Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint does for low budget film what Gray did for human anatomy. It exposes completely the complexities and hidden conflicts that lie unseen beneath the film gloss and shows the aspiring filmmaker how to plot a safe course through them…As a result, Movie Blueprint has become something of a paperback tome, its 600 pages packed with essential knowledge, but it weighs in as one point six six kilos of pure gold." --Scottish Screen Magazine, September 2003
"Entertaining anecdotes and case studies are mixed with far from daunting practical guides on software and shooting equipment. Especially excellent is the manual on editing package Avid Xpress DV- so simple, even a Luddite granny could understand it." -Nick Yates, Hotdog Magazine
"Virtually every problem a filmmaker encounters is covered in depth…Suffice to say it's all there in startling detail!…If you are going to buy any book to guide you through the low budget filmmaking process, this should be the one. Essential reading for the wannabe filmmaker." -Ben Frain, Camcorder User Magazine
"The open layout- with easy-to-follow diagrams and flow charts- and conversational text make even the most complicated aspects accessible to the layman…As a reference guide (and sometime comfort blanket) for wannabe Spielbergs, it's indispensable." -Olly Richards, Empire Magazine
"…much of the strength of this weighty tome is the way it mixes enthusiasm ('If you want to be a flim-maker,there's absolutely nothing to stop you')with harsh, practical truths (If it can go wrong, it will go wrong-twice'). At 600-plus pages, you can't accuse the author of short-changing you, and no detail appears too small for inclusion-from the different types of jacks you'll need for your sound leads to how to run your budget software. Overall, this delivers exactly what it promises, with Jones's own excellent design and layout adding to its good value, user-friendly feel." -Paul Kirkley, SFX Magazine
"Anyone with the vision, ambition, nerves, financial resources and sheer chutzpah necessary to try their hand at independent filmmaking should consider this a must-read." --Allen B. Ury, Fade In Magazine
"Movie Blueprint details absolutely everything you are likely to need to get a low budget picture made. Virtually every problem a filmmaker encounters is covered in depth, even as far as providing recipies for on-set catering! ...It you are going to buy any books to guide you through the low budget filmmaking process, this should be the one...Essential reading for the wannabe film maker." --Camcorder User Magazine
"...this is a meticulous guide to filmmaking on a shoestring....Entertaining anecdotes and ase studies are mixed with far from daunting practical guides on software and shooting equipment."
-Hotdog Magazine
"From paying your crew to putting together a DVD package, Jones discharges his wisdom and experience in chatty, accessible prose. His advice is so pragmatic, it's destines to become required reading from all wannabe filmmakers." 5 stars
--Total Film Magazine
"This Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint does for low budget film what Gray did for human anatomy. It exposes completely the complexities and hidden conflicts that lie unseen beneath the film gloss and shows the aspiring filmmaker how to plot a safe course through them…As a result, Movie Blueprint has become something of a paperback tome, its 600 pages packed with essential knowledge, but it weighs in as one point six six kilos of pure gold." --Scottish Screen Magazine, September 2003
"Entertaining anecdotes and case studies are mixed with far from daunting practical guides on software and shooting equipment. Especially excellent is the manual on editing package Avid Xpress DV- so simple, even a Luddite granny could understand it." -Nick Yates, Hotdog Magazine
"Virtually every problem a filmmaker encounters is covered in depth…Suffice to say it's all there in startling detail!…If you are going to buy any book to guide you through the low budget filmmaking process, this should be the one. Essential reading for the wannabe filmmaker." -Ben Frain, Camcorder User Magazine
"The open layout- with easy-to-follow diagrams and flow charts- and conversational text make even the most complicated aspects accessible to the layman…As a reference guide (and sometime comfort blanket) for wannabe Spielbergs, it's indispensable." -Olly Richards, Empire Magazine
"…much of the strength of this weighty tome is the way it mixes enthusiasm ('If you want to be a flim-maker,there's absolutely nothing to stop you')with harsh, practical truths (If it can go wrong, it will go wrong-twice'). At 600-plus pages, you can't accuse the author of short-changing you, and no detail appears too small for inclusion-from the different types of jacks you'll need for your sound leads to how to run your budget software. Overall, this delivers exactly what it promises, with Jones's own excellent design and layout adding to its good value, user-friendly feel." -Paul Kirkley, SFX Magazine
"Anyone with the vision, ambition, nerves, financial resources and sheer chutzpah necessary to try their hand at independent filmmaking should consider this a must-read." --Allen B. Ury, Fade In Magazine
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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A very good guide to film making,
By OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint (Paperback)
Basically this book is a three part book. The start of the book goes into the film making process, what it is about, why bother and how to get started. It gives you a general air of what is going on before a film starts shooting.
The middle part of the book is extremely technically useful. Don't be put-off by the fact that it is a British book, most of the standards are the same and the writer covers both US systems and UK systems. Anyway the value of this book is in that the writer interviews very important people that work in the filming process - actors, special effects, film lab, cameramen, editors, sound editors, legal agencies, projectionists, marketing people, producers, directors... etc.... and they all give very profesional tips on what you should do and what you should NOT do. The third part of the book deals with CASE STUDIES and various filmmakers talk about their projects and what went right and what went wrong. Overall this is a very good book with lots of information from the people that matter in this industry. There is a lot of information on what NOT to do when shooting your first film. Anybody who wants to get into to film making should not miss out on this writer/director's account of his experiences with film making.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Wow!!!,
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This review is from: The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint (Paperback)
I am only Half of the way thru this book so far, but this is INCREDIBLE. Its actually giving me a head ache, how much information this guy has crammed into his book. The graphics, illustrations and photos are all excellent, and even the cartoons (which I normally HATE) are good. It helps that the chick is kinda cute! Every chapter gives you a "blueprint" of what you need to know about that specific part of movie-making. Sound, camera, make-up, music, setting up a company, editing, casting, it's all there. There's even a chapter on catering which includes recipes for film crews, it's brilliant. Another good thing is that the writing is laugh-out-loud funny sometimes, you can really tell that this guy has been thru the mill when it comes to making no-budget movies. This book is a breath of fresh air. If you don't believe me, go to a book store and flick through it. If you walk out without buying it, I'll be amazed.
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Excellent Resource!,
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This book has been extremely helpful to me and my crew during the process of my current production. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in what it might take to actually get a project up and running and into production. We recently just wrapped principle photography on Rolling Stoned and this book helped me get through quite a bit! Well worth the price tag!
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