The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide

Stop talking about making movies…JUST shut up and shoot! This filmmaking guide will show you how – step-by-step!

If you want to:

…then this just may be the single most important letter you’ll ever read. Why? Because the product I’m going to tell you about has been delivering all of these things for filmmakers everywhere since the moment it hit the market and I’m gonna show you proof.

I wrote this book, because I want to share the many things I’ve learned (and am still learning) and do my best to inspire you to pursue and persist at filmmaking. I love what I do and I do what I love.  I actually want you to succeed, so I’m not gonna B.S. you with some unrealistic pie-in-the sky promise playing on your filmmaking dreams just to get you to open up your wallet. In fact, I’m gonna be downright blunt with you, because every new filmmaker needs to come to this realization…

MAKING QUALITY FILMS AND VIDEOS IS HARD AND DIFFICULT WORK.

It’s technically, mentally and financially challenging. It involves creativity, art, writing, science, business, psychology, even physical stamina. You need to always properly prepare to make a film to have any hope of being successful. There is a lot to know and it’s not all easy to find, understand or apply in actual practice. And anyone that tells you otherwise is deluded, has no real filmmaking experience or is just trying to sell you some crap- (or possibly all three)!

However, that dose of reality doesn’t mean that you can’t still realize that dream. It just means that you need to properly prepare with sound realistic filmmaking advice to confront the multitude of very real obstacles to creating a successful film project – even in this digital computer age.

You can greatly increase your confidence, competence and chances of success and overcoming the odds with clear real-world instruction, advice, practical tips, technical know-how, and by tapping into the wisdom and techniques of the many successful filmmakers that have gone before you. That’s what I deliver with this product, nothing more and nothing less than…

100% real-world illustrated practical instructions on the tangible and intangible things that can help you make your film and video projects with less mistakes and better end results regardless of your budget.

So now that we’ve got all that straight, here’s just some of what you’ll get when you order The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide today:

LOOK AT EVERYTHING YOU GET WHEN YOU ORDER TODAY:

• 296 glossy full-color pages featuring 500+ clear full-color photos and diagrams in a real soft-cover book.
• Bonus DVD w/ more than 1 hour of instructional audio and video content plus more (not just bogus commercials and trailers this is actual useful content to help you learn the craft)
• A collection of convenient fully-printable filmmaking forms, production checklists and sample releases.
• Printable technical cheat sheets for easy reference on-set including Jump Start Charts for easy reference to the Panasonic DVX-100 and HVX-200 cameras and the Shure FP33 Mixer.
• A printable ready-to-use fill-in-the-blanks documentary budget template

FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATED PURELY PRACTICAL FILMMAKING INSTRUCTION – NO B.S.

So much of this valuable advice and technical information is not clearly spelled out in a single text anywhere on the bookshelf or in any one online source. You have to go to one source for useful camera info, another source for budgeting advice, and yet another source for practical audio info- on and on, until you’re completely overwhelmed by a stack of expensive bloated film books, magazine articles, and fifty different webpages bookmarked that you can’t even remember which bookmark goes to what in the first place. (Sound familiar?)

In The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide, I spell it all out – lighting, camera, audio, pre and post-production from A-Z and make it plain and simple with useful full-color pictures, valuable tips, and simple terminology that anyone can understand, regardless of your experience level. And it’s all laid out logically by technical and production topics, even color-coded to make it all easy. I would call it the ‚ ¨iPod of filmmaking products,” but I’m afraid I’d get sued, so I won’t actually call it that (even though that’s how easy it is to learn filmmaking from this product). Now when I say spelled out, I mean I’m giving you easy-to-digest illustrations, diagrams, charts, brand names, prices, and step-by-step procedures, in other words real and useful specifics on…

• How to hook up a mixer – pg. 139
• What colored gels to use and when – pg.108
• When and how to use lighting accessories – pg. 99
• What film equipment you need to get started – pg. 42
• Which microphone to use in various situations – pg. 134
• What to look for when hiring crew – pg. 46
• What to look for when buying or renting a camera – pg. 34
• Interview preparation and warm-up – pg. 204
• How to shoot a live event – pg. 176
• How to hustle money back into your budget – pg. 25
• When to use camera auto-functions – pg. 80
• Which boom position to use and when – pg. 129
• How to shoot handheld – pg. 84
• How to avoid getting your equipment ripped off – pg. 59
• How and why to adjust video color bars – pg 89
• Interviewing celebrities – pg. 209
• Common 3-CCD camera specs and prices – pg. 36
• The most common budgeting mistakes to avoid – pg. 22
• How to manipulate your shutter speed and when – pg.77
• How to feed your crew well on a budget – pg. 50
• How to automatically log mini-DV tapes – pg. 220
• Getting started in Final Cut Pro – Bonus DVD Pages
• How to get shallow depth of field in 5 different ways – pg. 175
• How to work a film festival – pg. 236
• How to mount a lav mic – pg. 132
• How to steal locations and not get busted – pg. 63
• Five different ways to get a film look from video – pg. 78
• How to raise the money and approach investors – pg. 15
• 8 set-up Lighting Cookbook‚ w/ diagrams and photos – pg. 114
• Where to find online filmmaking resources – Bonus DVD Resources
• Which type of cables are used for what gear – pg. 147
• Who does what on the crew – pg. 43
• How to shoot in rough neighborhoods – pg. 67
• PLUS TONS MORE USEFUL INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE!

…And that’s just part of the full bounty of real and valuable filmmaking information contained in this package. These are just practical straight-up answers that every filmmaker will need to know sooner or later- all explained clearly, in plain English, step-by-step.

That’s just the useful information that I’m providing, but even after 17+ years in the game, I don’t know everything (far from it), so I reached out to gather more practical wisdom and advice some of the most respected, experienced and talented filmmakers and experts in the industry to ask them to fill in my blanks by giving you their candid advice in pages entitled Been There, Done That, that are dispersed throughout the book by topic.

Who are just some of the diverse respected and talented filmmakers who have contributed their vast filmmaking wisdom and knowledge to this book? Here’s a partial list:

EVEN MORE VALUABLE FILMMAKING ADVICE AND WISDOM FROM:

Albert Maysles – The Godfather of Doc Director/Cinematographer – Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, etc.
Albert Maysles is a living filmmaking legend. He’s one of the pioneers of the Direct Cinema movement who’s shot docs on such icons as the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Castro.

 

Sam Pollard – Academy Award Nominee Producer/Editor – 4 Little Girls, When the Levees Broke, etc.
Over 30 years Sam has won a Peabody and Emmy Award. He has edited many of the films of director Spike Lee. Sam is also a dedicated production and editing professor at NYU.

 

John Canemaker – Academy Award Winner Animator – The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Coversation
John is an world-renowned animation historian and Executive Director of Animation of NYU’s legendary Tisch School of the Arts. He won an Oscar for Best Animated Short in 2005.

 

Rose Rosenblatt and Marion Lipschutz Producers/Directors – The Education of Shelby Knox
Rose and Marion are long time doc filmmakers whose work has been on PBS and Court TV. The Education of Shelby Knox, won Best Cinematography at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

 

Adrian Belic – Academy Award Nominee Co-Producer/Co-Director – Genghis Blues, Beyond the Call, Happy
Adrian and his brother Rocco, shot their documentary, Genghis Blues, on a Hi-8 video camera in the rugged mountains of Tuva. It was as down an dirty as it gets and it was Oscar-nominated.

 

Susan Buice and Arin Crumley Co-Producers/Directors/Podcasters – Four Eyed Monsters
Susan and Arin have emerged as serious thought leaders in the world of indie film. They are self-taught and challenging the traditional notion of film distribution with innovative new models.

 

…PLUS MUCH MORE INSIDER INDIE FILMMAKING ADVICE

Many of these name-brand indie filmmakers have been nominated for (and even won) Oscars and won more major awards, festivals, and accolades than I could hope to list. Like I said, this book is the real deal. And they are all giving perfectly candid, concise and practical advice on everything from funding to storytelling to ethics throughout this book. Their hard-earned words-of-wisdom are full of valuable insights and inspiration that will help give you a leg up and learn things the easy way- from someone else’s experience.

CLEAR, SIMPLE, VISUAL INSTRUCTION

In the 15+ years I’ve been making film and TV, I’ve wasted many precious hours (actually days) of my life reading between the lines of some overwhelming film book, trying to find and decipher the few kernels of real information that were actually relevant to helping me make my project… I rarely found the practical info I needed and hardly ever in a single book. This book delivers it all in one neat compact package.

In The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide I’ve gone through great pains to make the complicated and confusing process of filmmaking easy and clear for you to understand and more importantly, execute.

Filmmaking is a visual medium. So why do so many film books have hardly any pictures in them?! My educated guess is because it’s expensive and a hell of a lot of effort to shoot and design a bunch of custom photos and illustrations. But that’s exactly what it takes to explain things more clearly, so I’ve stacked this book with 500+ clear illustrations, photos, and diagrams and added a one-of-a-kind straight-to-the-point high-quality video DVD tutorial on recording better audio.

Long after you begin to master the craft, The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide will serve as a continual illustrated reference guide to the thousand little technical and procedural details you need to recall to pull off a film.

Not only that, but this book will help you avoid the most common filmmaking mistakes and give you the technical know-how, insider tips and confidence to capture your vision regardless of your budget. It’s an easy and humorous read and written to inspire and motivate you to pursue your vision regardless of your budget or experience level.

DON’T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT HERE’S WHAT FILMMAKERS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE SAYING

I’m not just hyping this book up, I’m simply telling you what the film magazines, critics, professors, filmmakers and students have already said in writing about The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide.

Check the quotes throughout this web page. Go ahead and click the links to the reviews throughout this page. There’s not a fake one among them. These are real reviews and quotes from real and notable online and print publications and people in the film industry. (When you’ve got the real deal, you don’t have to fake it.)

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide got a glowing review from American Cinematographer magazine,  10 out of 10 review from Microfilmmaker Magazine. It got a 5 out of 5 star review from Empire Magazine, (a huge film publication out of the U.K.) and enthusiastic endorsements from blog writers in the filmmaking community.

Not only that, but in just the few short months that it’s been out on the market, it’s been instantly adapted as required reading by a number of established and up-and-coming film schools and colleges across the world including:

• New York University – Tisch School of the Arts – New York City
• Chatman University – California
  
• DCTV (Downtown Community Television) – New York City
• S.A.E. (School of Audio Engineering) – London
• Colorado University – Boulder
• Judson College – Alabama
• S.A.E. (School of Audio Engineering) – Amsterdam
• Fort Lewis College – Colorado
• Lafayette College – Pennsylvania
• Morgan State University – Baltimore

 
This partial list includes some of the most prestigious names in film education on either side of the globe and they have adopted this book in the classroom for one reason and one reason only- it’s helping their students to make better films.

WHAT OUTRAGEOUS PRICE AM I CHARGING YOU FOR ALL OF THIS FILM KNOWLEDGE?

Like I said at the start of this letter, I actually want you to succeed. I could easily charge a lot more money for this product and still have plenty of happy customers, but I don’t want to price out the people I know want and need this book the most- aspiring filmmakers with limited resources.

I know very well that if you are a guerrilla filmmaker (or an aspiring one) you don’t have a lot of money to put anywhere except up on the screen, so I’m giving you an outrageous price…an outrageously low price with a money-back guarantee. This price is much lower than other filmmaking products on the market and even 20% lower than the retail price of the book. Not only that, but there is absolutely no-risk for you whatsoever, because just like the filmmaking instruction, the guarantee is no B.S.

I’ve said all I can about this product. I’ve shown you all the knowledge and practical info you get. You’ve seen the glowing reviews from the film magazine critics. You’ve seen the list of film schools already using it in the classroom . You’ve read actual emails and testimonials from customers. You’ve seen the straight up money-back guarantee, so you know that there’s no risk. If you are truly serious about filmmaking and looking for a better learning resource, there’s nothing more to say or to do except buy this book and Shut Up and Shoot!

I’m proud of this product and put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it to make it a truly helpful resource for filmmakers. I truly hope you enjoy this product as so many others have. Happy Guerrilla Filmmaking!

Peace, Love, and Video,
Anthony Q. Artis

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