ABSTRACT

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide is just a starting point for a film education. You’ve still got a long way to go to true filmmaking enlightenment. First you must understand this: Learning the craft of filmmaking is a lifelong process. It doesn’t stop after you finish a given book, class, or project … There’s an ever deeper and evolving world of visual storytelling, technology and techniques to learn and comprehend. (There’s a reason why most of the people at the top of the film game have gray hair–it takes that long to master it.)