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- A Must-Have!
- Good Information, But Filled with Typos
- So much more than another "how to" book
- Great book - interviews are very helpful!
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The Documentary Film Makers Handbook: A Guerilla Guide
Genevieve Jolliffe , and
Andrew Zinnes
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Documentary films have enjoyed a huge resurgence over the last few years, and there's a new generation of filmmakers wanting to get involved. In addition, the digital revolution has made documentaries even more accessible to the general filmmaker. Documentary films can now be shot professionally using cheaper equipment, and smaller cameras enable the documentarian to be less intrusive and therefore more intimate in the subjects' lives. With an increasing number of documentaries making it to the big screen (and enjoying ongoing sales on DVD), the time is right for an information-packed handbook that will guide new filmmakers towards potential artistic and commercial success.
The Documentary Film Makers Handbook features incisive and helpful interviews with dozens of industry professionals, on subjects as diverse as interview techniques, the NBC News Archive, music rights, setting up your own company, the Film Arts Foundation, pitching your proposal, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Documentary Channel, the British Film Council, camera hire, filmmaking ethics, working with kids, editing your documentary, and DVD distribution.
The book also includes in-depth case studies of some of the most successful and acclaimed documentary films of recent years, including March of the Penguins, Born Into Brothels, Control Room, Dogtown and Z Boys, My Date With Drew, and many more! The Documentary Film Makers Handbook will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to know more about breaking into this exciting field.
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A Must-Have!.......2007-04-01
This book is packed with tons of useful information. We consider ourselves somewhat expererienced documentary film-makers, but it's given us a lot of valuable information we didn't alreadly know, and didn't know who to ask.
Good Information, But Filled with Typos.......2006-12-24
This book is full of great information, but there are many places in the text where there appears to be missing text. e.g. pages 51, 57, 59 where there are little boxes that appear in the middle of sentences & break up the text, sometimes with returns that leave one word on a line. Curious.
So much more than another "how to" book.......2006-11-21
Though this book has plenty of useful resources from writing to funding to filming to distributing your film, what really sets it apart from the rest are the short interviews throughout the book with people from all sections of the industry--not just directors! They generally start off with a simple question--What do you do?--and then quickly gets down to brass tacks and inside dope. It's fascinating stuff...engaging reading isn't exactly what one expects from a "handbook" but they've done it right.
Great book - interviews are very helpful!.......2006-11-17
If you are truly interested in becoming a documentary filmmaker then this is the book for you, whether you are just starting or already well on your way. I found the interviews in the book to be the most helpful and informative. Thanks for putting together such a functional and important guide!
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A comprehensive and inspirational handbook for independent filmmakers in North America. Over 700 massive pages are packed with candid, revealing interviews with industry insiders; thousands of helpful illustrations and graphics, and in-depth case studies of recently successful films like 'The Good Girl', 'Donnie Darko', 'The Slaughter Rule', and 'Lovely and Amazing'.
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Save your money.......2007-06-08
Don't be fooled by the title. There is precious little in this book that will be of use for the no budget independent filmmaker. If you want a truly useful and comprehensive guide on low budget independent moviemaking then I recommend "Digital Filmmaking 101" by Dale Newton and John Gaspard. The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook will be worthless to you unless you have a budget of a million dollars or more. Skip it.
WOW WHAT A BOOK!! DONT GET TOO DISOURAGED.......2005-03-13
first,let me mention that the book takes a great approach in giving you the facts. this is the book i've been searching for.
THIS IS NOT A GUERILLA FILM BOOK WHERE IT TEACHES YOU HOW TO SHOOT A FILM FOR $50 AND AvOIDING GETTING ARRESTED. if u want to shoot a film that way than obviously u r not prepared to shoot a good film and your script probably stinks.
If you want to get advice from people who were recently in your shoes and are now working in the industry as professionals than BUY THIS. a lot of very important things are brought up.
DEVELOPMENT, FINANCING, PRODUCTION, POST, AND DISTRIBUTION are all well explained. especially the legal aspects of things.
You want investors, well you first need to know who to handle the whole PPM manner so that you dont get sued. These types of books are all i read.
If you want to produce than read: this book+"from reel to deal"
Directing: "Directing actors"+ buy the 6 dvd set of HOLLYWOOD
CAMERA WORK which is $480 but worth every penny trust me.
If you want to write then you must buy "STORY" by robert mckee and learn how to format form any other book.
I did my homework so listem to me and stay away from film schools. they are thieves and you will come out dissapointed. read my other reviews. ONLY LISTEN TO THE INDUSTRY PROS and POSITIVE PEOPLE. EVERYONE ELSE IS FULL OF CRAP AND FILM SCHOOLS LOVE TO DISCOURAGE STUDENTS CAUse they know all 500,000 students they get every year arent going to make it. COLLEGE TEACHERS ARE MOSTLY PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO WEAK MINDED TO MAKE IT SO THEY TEACH. HAPPY FILMING AND GOD BLESS YOU.
lots of info,but title is a bit misleading.......2005-01-01
i read the other reveiws on this book and bought it. then returned it. it is packed full of all kinds of great information from industry experts, which is great, but i was looking for a book on filmaking for rebel independent film makers. It seems to be written for people with LOTS of money. which i don't have. in their defense the title does not say anything about independent, which is what i assumed. when i think of guerilla i think of rebels. this book is a bit out of my league.
Is this better than The Guerilla Film Makers BLUEPRINT?.......2004-12-14
Hey..just wanted to know if anyone have read the Film Makers BluePrint? I hear its really really detailed as far as the process of filmmaking at a low budget...is it better that this book? Let me know...thanks...
ABSOLUTELY for Guerilla Film Makers and Beyond!.......2004-12-11
This book is AWESOME! It covers everything you need to know to start out making a movie. The interviews are with working professionals, the majority of whom started out on guerilla films and who talk about the differences between the low budget guerilla movies and the big Hollywood blockbusters that many work on today. And peppered within the interviews are these helpful hints that give the low budget/guerilla tips on how to save money and play with the big boys when you have no money. I found this invaluable as I know I'm getting my advice and tips from the experts who have made it and not unknown filmmakers who can't move on from the doldrums of guerilla films. After having read this book I feel like I've sat down and had meetings with all of these experts and boy! do I feel informed! I'm a filmmaker who has to start out guerilla style but hope to move out of the guerilla world and into the professional world. This book gives me a guide and the inspiration. Sure it might not be easy but at least now I'm armed with everything I should know! As with all serious filmmakers, you have to actually go out there and make a movie which is obviously what the book can't do for you but it can certainly lead you in the right direction and tell you what you're up against. None of the other books out there seem to compare with this one. Thank you!!!!
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The most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen, Fargo was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently produced film. This volume explores Fargo from a variety of perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the film's production, reception and place within the career of the Coen brothers, it covers issues and themes significant to current film discourse, including genre, gender and sexuality, race, history, culture and myth.
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Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently produced film without major stars. Fargo is also a film that explores middle-American themes and settings from an original and unsettling perspective, challenging traditional genre structures. This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the film's production, reception and place within the career of the Coen brothers, it explores issues and themes that are important to current film discourse, including genre, gender and sexuality, race, history, culture and myth.
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Bringing together new and critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made, this collection of writings examines the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, as well as the difficulties of adapting an invented language ("nadsat") for the screen. The volume also includes two contemporary and conflicting reviews by Roger Hughes and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of "nadsat" and reproductions of stills from the film.
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- A book to teach you how to film
- Like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!
- Puts you in the director's chair.
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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Handbook
Seth McEvoy ,
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Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (a.k.a. Windows Me) endows Microsoft's everyday operating system with considerable multimedia capability, including video editing. The Microsoft Windows MovieMaker Handbook explains how to use the video-editing tools that ship with Windows Me to assemble video presentations. Perhaps more importantly, the authors relate knowledge about moviemaking--enabling you to plan and create videos that are more emotionally moving, persuasive, and technically attractive. They do a good job of communicating the importance of high production values in every video creation, whether professional or amateur, and appropriately place the editing tools themselves second in importance, behind good conceptual thinking.
In a typical section, the authors explain differences in editing styles. Documentary editing in the cinéma vérité style, for example, involves stringing together clips, often out of chronological sequence, in order to convey a larger truth about the subject. They explain camera moves ("dolly in," "pedestal up"), too. Coverage would be better if authors had included examples from famous movies and television shows (the jerky camera in "Homicide," the window in the series of dissolves at the beginning of "Citizen Kane"). Sections on Windows MovieMaker and the other Windows Me tools are adequate--it's the background information on moviemaking that gives this book its value. --David Wall
Topics covered: Fundamentals of cinematography, video editing, and the other technical aspects of moviemaking, as facilitated by the tools that come with Microsoft Windows Me. Sections deal with planning shots, writing scripts, arranging lights, and capturing video to digital format. Coverage of the Windows MovieMaker software documents the editing suite fully, from the everyday user's point of view.
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Whether it's graduation day, baby's first bite of birthday cake, or your own made-for-PC mini-series, the MICROSOFT MOVIE MAKER HANDBOOK makes it easy to create and share movies over the Web. MovieMaker software is part of the new Microsoft Windows(r) Millennium Edition (Windows Me) operating system, and this book delivers inside insights direct from members of the MovieMaker team. With it, users learn how to record audio and video source material, create storyboards, edit and arrange footage, add titles, music, sound effects, and voice-overs-then store, play, or send! The companion CD-ROM comes loaded with ready-to-use audio, still images, and video content-providing everything the next desktop director needs to make movies on a home PC.
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A book to teach you how to film.......2002-06-25
Not only the handbook for Microsoft Windows Movie Maker, this book introduces the ways to film to make your home movie more interesting. Instead of shooting without any plan, home video amateurs can really take advantage of the suggestions in the book for better planning to get better entertaining result.
Like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!.......2001-11-28
I think this is a good book on Movie Makers by author Seth McEvoy and on the cover it reminds me like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire becuase of the cover!
This is another good book I like.
The pictures are cool.
Puts you in the director's chair........2000-11-04
Microsoft brings the ability to make movies right to the desktop with Windows ME. This book takes that adventure and shows you the techniques that will have you making, editing and showing movies to your friends in no time flat.
Of course you do need to have a camcorder, a computer and Windows ME installed, but other than that this book is all you will need. Divided into three parts, The Basics, Movie Maker and Advanced uses the book makes sure you understand the concepts and best of all you learn as you go.
In Part 1 you learn about making movies, planning, production tools, shooting and editing and finally distributing movies. In part 2 you the chance to take your movies and put them in the Movie Maker application, you'll also start organizing, editing and sharing the movies with family and friends.
Finally part 3 has you doing more advanced techniques like working with stills, adding sound effects and how to use the media player to play the movies you have created. The Cd-rom include has media player version 7, some ready to use videos and stills to practice with, images and sounds and a few other production tools.
If you are into the creation of movies or want to have some fun with home movies this book should allow you the let out the creative genius inside. Overall a very good book.
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OK but too UK oriented.......2004-11-11
Though I found many aspects of this book helpful, I thought the book was too Oriented towards Filmmakers in the UK where much of their filmmaking industry is government subsidized. An aspring filmmaker in the US will not find many parts of this book useful (film lottery, and UK legal system). But the parts that are generic to all filmmakers are what makes the book worth buying.
I have discovered that the authors have recently published a US version of this book. For American filmmakers, I recommend that book instead of this UK version. Though there are some aspects that will be universal to all filmmakers, there are still huge chunks of the UK version that simply is not applicable to us Americans.
A very good guide to film making.......2003-10-12
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 (My copy of the book is actually missing pages here. It looks like the printer left out about 30 pages and replaced these with pages that where already printed a few pages back before).
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. It is worth every penny, even though my book did have misprints.
Lots of Information but too UK centric for me........2001-09-10
I'd have to agree with the previous reviewer that this is a PACKED volume of information. There is definitely a lot of information here.
Importantly, especially for the novice filmmaker, it is written in accessible language and with many photos/pictures to help illustrate points.
The format is not very "handbook"-like however. It's not set up with the ability to refer to a particular section and instantly find information. The format is actually INTERVIEWS with various people. That makes this an easy read but not really something I'd call a "handbook".
Also, where I tend to back off with my usefulness of this book - it is written with a very distinctive UK (Great Britian) slant. Most (though not all) of the interviews are with UK resident filmmakers, professionals and film business people. I found a lot of the information to be TOO MUCH about making films in the UK, and not generic enough for US application.
UK filmmakers or filmmaker hopefuls will find more in this book to relate to thier field than will a US filmmaker. BUT - again, even for those in the UK, the INTERVIEW format isn't very user-friendly. It's like reading a very long magazine interview with various film professionals.
Please note, also, that the featured CD contains .txt and .doc (MS Word) examples which are written for the UK (ie. they indicate "Engligh Court" and the money amounts are pounds). I'm not sure what it would take to make them US friendly, but thought I should mention this.
I wish everyone the best of luck in making their own film, that's a dream of mine and I encourage you to read as much information about filmmaking as you can, however - this would not be a book I'd suggest as your only reference, or for use as a "handbook".
I will note that, specifically, the charts and illustrations of various equipment were very helpful.
All The Best,
turtlex
Sifting the wheat from the chaff.......2001-04-08
In 1996 two inde film-makers (with three low/no budget feature films under their belts) put together a how-to volume which covered every possible aspect of the film-making war. As a result, The Guerilla Film-makers Handbook, was a revelation. It even prompted Human Traffic director Justin Kerrigan to call it "the only book in my shelf I wouldn't roach". This is the second coming. Jones and Jolliffe return - revised, updated and twice as fat. Because it completely sidesteps all of the usual tedious techie jargon and stays accessible from cover to cover, this should be at the top of everyone's pile,whether you're 12-years-old with a string of festival hits behind you, or still dreaming of the yellowbrick road to Hollywood fortune and fame. The book is packed with(639p) a complete breakdown of the filmmaking process. Flow-charts, illustrations, definitions and explanations of each nut and bolt along the way. At every stage experts - from casting agents to lawyers- drop in to offer advice. There are also loads of film case studdies including Lynne Ramsey's "Ratcatcher", Richard Stanley's "The Island of Dr. Moreau and the inevitable "Blair Witch Project". And if that's not enough for you, you also get a free toolkit CD-ROM which handily contains all the contract forms and documents you'll ever need, as well as some free screenwriting software. Buy this book! Don't borrow it! It's as good as it gets.
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Home Video Makers Handbook Fle
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Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day
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This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching.
Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography, making this book an essential reference and guide.
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Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film.
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