An excellent book full of great ideas for your low budget productions.
This book is written by Stu Maschwitz is a great overview of production tips and tricks that will take you low budget project to another level. The book focuses on what the average person can do given a little time to get the best bang for the buck out of production and post production. It has great how-to's for special effects you can do at home that you would expect to cost a lot more. It frames the advice for action films but is really appropriate for projects in all genres.