Many months ago, I bought an interesting book from the great Focal Press called "Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking - practical techniques for the guerilla fillmmaker" by Dan Rahmel. I completely forgot to post a note about it.
It focuses mainly on building grip equipment with parts from the hardware store. I was looking for a cheap alternative for the costly C-stands, and I found it. But it features also tips and building projects for other departments: camera, grip, electric (building a softbox, gaffer techniques), sound, and even art departement (set design and construction). It covers also pre-prod steps; storyboarding, script supervision, location scouting, releases. And all that, on the cheap.
For us, homebuilt stabilizer nuts, the camera glider (the dreadful weighted tripod) is far from satisfying, but for the rest, a very interesting and inspirational read. I'm gonna use a LOT of what is in this book for my indie feature next year.
Just wanted to share. If you are curious, look inside this:
http://www.amazon.com/Nuts-Bolts-Filmmaking-Practical-Techniques/dp/0240805461/sr=1-14/qid=1157688995/ref=sr_1_14/103-4991876-4656620?ie=UTF8&s=booksAnd the website of the author, that complete the book: http://www.cvisual.com/
Eric
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