Anatomy of a Guerrilla Film


Book Description

"Anatomy of a Guerrilla Film: The Making of RADIUS," does something that no other how-to filmmaking book does: it teaches filmmaking principles by taking readers through the process of making a real-world guerrilla film and then lets you watch the final film - included on an accompanying DVD - so readers can actually see the results of all the decisions, compromises, setbacks, and victories. First-time filmmaker and author Helmut Kobler believes that the best way to learn is by watching other people do something and then learning from their successes and mistakes. That philosophy is the concept behind this book. Written in clear, straightforward language for the first-time or beginning filmmaker, "Anatomy of a Guerrilla Film: The Making of RADIUS," serves as a case-study for new filmmakers, allowing them to see the lessons and principles presented in the book come to life in the actual film. From start to finish, every step and process that encompasses making an independent film is covered, including preproduction, production, post production, and marketing and distribution. Different approaches to each step and process are covered, not just the approach used by the author. Behind-the-scenes footage and commentary by the author on the included DVD clearly illustrate the steps making this book the most unique and hands-on guide to guerrilla filmmaking.




Guerrilla Film Scoring


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As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of one. In Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers, Jeremy Borum provides valuable guidance on how to make a good film score both quickly and inexpensively. This handbook encompasses the entire film scoring process including education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts. Offering strategic tools and techniques, this insider’s guide draws on the expertise from a number of prominent composers in movies, television, and video gaming, including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, and Jack Wall. A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book will help composers at all levels create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively—without jeopardizing their art. With access to rare and extremely useful input from the best in the business, Guerrilla Film Scoring will benefit not only students but also professionals looking to update their game.




The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook and the Film Producers Toolkit


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The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook and Producers Toolkit is the ultimate guide to low-budget movie-making in the UK and around the world. It contains three major sections:. Anatomy of a Movie - A step-by-step guide to all aspects of production, from copyright law to casting agents, direction to distribution, cash sources to stunts. We ask the questions to which, YOU, the Producer, need to know the answers.




Guerrilla Film Marketing


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Create an irresistible brand image and build an audience of loyal and engaged fans... Guerrilla Film Marketing takes readers through each step of the film branding, marketing and promotional process. Tailored specifically to low-budget independent films and filmmakers, Guerrilla Film Marketing offers practical and immediately implementable advice for marketing considerations across every stage of the film production process. Written by leading film industry professional Robert G. Barnwell, Guerrilla Film Marketing teaches readers how to: Master the fundamentals of guerrilla branding, marketing and promotion; Create an integrated marketing plan and calendar based on realistic budgets and expectations; Develop internet and social media marketing campaigns, including engaging studio and film websites and powerful, marketing-centric IMDb listings; Assemble behind-the-scenes pictures, videos and documentaries; Produce marketing materials such as key art, posters, film teasers, trailers and electronic press kits (aka "EPKs"); and Maximize the marketing impact of events such as test screenings, premiers, film festivals and industry award ceremonies. Guerrilla Film Marketing is filled with dozens of step-by-step instructions, checklists, tools, a glossary, templates and other resources. A downloadable eResource also includes a sample marketing plan and audit, a test screening questionnaire, and more.







The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook


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This third edition of the UK's best-selling filmmaker's bible, builds upon the most successful features of the previous books. Including illustrations, diagrams, and box-outs, this book comes with a DVD, packed with further interviews with filmmakers, as well as theatrical trailers.




The Documentary Film Makers Handbook


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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 Mad Hot Ballroom, Born Into Brothels, Touching the Void, Beneath the Veil,and Amandla! The Documentary Film Makers Handbook will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to know more about breaking into this exciting field.




The Guerrilla Rep


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The first and so far only book on Film Markets. A Film Market is the best place a filmmaker can go to get traditional, non-DIY Distribution. The first edition of this book was used as a text at more than ten film schools in the US, and the book has an endorsement from the host of the #1 Filmmaking podcast on iTunes, and advice from 8 distributors.




The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide


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So you want to make a documentary, but think you don't have a lot of time, money, or experience? It's time to get down and dirty! Down and dirty is a filmmaking mindset. It's the mentality that forces you to be creative with your resources. It's about doing more with less. Get started NOW with this book and DVD set, a one-stop shop written by a guerrilla filmmaker, for guerrilla filmmakers. You will learn how to make your project better, faster, and cheaper. The pages are crammed with 500 full-color pictures, tips from the pros, resources, checklists and charts, making it easy to find what you need fast. The DVD includes: * Video and audio tutorials, useful forms, and interviews with leading documentary filmmakers like Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), Sam Pollard (4 Little Girls), and others * 50+ Crazy Phat Bonus pages with jump start charts, online resources, releases, storyboards, checklists, equipment guides, and shooting procedures Here's just a small sampling of what's inside the book: * Putting together a crew * Choosing a camera * New HDV and 24P cameras * Shooting in rough neighborhoods * Interview skills and techniques * 10 ways to lower your budget * Common production forms




Guerrilla Film Making Tactics


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This isn't you typical video text book. The strategies and tactics in this manual are tried true and tested. They've been through the fire and have produced results. Weather your a beginner or a seasoned vet there are gems and jewels for you. Learn how to maximize time with your talent and locations. Learn the absolute bare necessities to pull off certain type of productions quickly and efficiently. Learn how to make $20 work like $500 in the production game. Learn how to get locations for free, if not next to nothing. Get some creative ideas on how to feed a crew inexpensively. Discover the best ways to find help to pull off your concept or idea in any city. Learn how to spread the work like internet wildfire about your project. This manual with give your arsenal advanced firepower in the fight for your visual dreams. Who said war had to be fair. Invest in yourself and your crew today.Creating a niche is one of the best ways to sustain yourself while creating. Specializing in a certain type of production is a good way to keep your cash flow steady. Filming Weddings, Producing automotive promos and commercials, Birthday and event videography, high school sports, pageant and modeling events, music videos and a variety of other vignettes and areas of production can keep you eating during drought seasons. Keep your options open each area has it's own network of individuals and networking opportunities and circles. Guerrilla Film making Tactics will lay out tools to take your production to the next level.If you're a member of the elite ever encompassing the majority of low or middle class citizens in the world then trust I understand money is always an issue. Building a financial backing for some projects can be tedious to say the least. All the more reason to invest in your craft and have the best tools. Film making is an art. And like any Art you must have a certain degree of appreciation for it. And because it's considered an art form it can be done and executed very well, or very wrong.After you have clearly established a purpose and a reason for doing what it is you are doing then it makes the rest of the process so much smoother. Because during those hard times, long nights, and restless hours this becomes your motivation, your drive for completion. The purpose would be considered the heart of your work - whether it be a short form piece for the internet, commercial, music video, infomercial or a feature film. It could be something as simple as sharing a good laugh with friends, or even the world with the way sharing media is now extremely viral and contagious. Or possibly educating them on the social dynamics of life. As long as it's important to you that's all that matters. One thing to be mindful of is there's enough mindless garbage out there, please don't go polluting minds adding to the pile. Be thoughtful. Be creative. There is a line of resourcefulness that stands between artistic en devours and commerce. So basically saying if you want to get paid for creating art, or working in an artistic field, sacrifices will have to be made. At the end of the day it's about delivering a visual or interactive experience that is eye catching and memorable with a message or call to action...That's what makes the line of resourcefulness so important because you will pull on the elements and components of art to structure them in such a way as to be able to get paid for working in this new high-tech digital artistic age. The next bit of usefulness on this subject would be the concept. This would be considered the brains of the project. The idea you wish to use to translate the purpose behind your work. For example if your purpose is to make people laugh, the concept could be based around three friends that always end up worse than they started no matter the quest they began. Kind of like the three stooges. This along with purpose are key determining factors in the success of your work.