Two essential books for aspiring film-makers arrive almost simultaneously. Chris Jones, who became the maven of British low-budget film production by co-authoring The Guerilla Film-Maker's Handbook, has gone one step further.

The Movie Blueprint is a 600-page doorstep of a book, describing in exhaustive detail every step in the production process, from "Company Set-Up Blueprint" to "Sales and Distribution Blueprint".

It's a comprehensive how-to guide that goes a long way past the credit-card-and-handicam aspirations of the usual cheap-and-cheerful merchants, written in an easy, accessible style, with scores of diagrams, flow charts and paperwork samples.

There are lots of handy low-budget hints, too, from "Don't Do Deferrals" to "DIY Skateboard Dolly".

So once you know how to do it, it'll be time to get organised.

The First Film Foundation, an organisation dedicated to helping tyros on to celluloid, has collated all the addresses and phone numbers you're likely to need into a single volume, edited by Andrea Cornwell.

Sections include Film Schools, Training Bursaries and that all-important Production Finance. Now there's no excuse.

· The Guerilla Film-Maker's Movie Blueprint, Continuum, £25; First Facts, FFF, £16