Well, like I told a younger guy at my school; I would first start with a smaller consumer camera. But thats just my opinion. I used a sony handycam I bought for 200-300$, and played with that for a couple years. I also took a video production class, and additional art related film classes at my highschool. Then when you are ready to upgrade, you can think about getting a prosumer camera, costing anywhere from 800-10,000$, depending on your budjet. It would be a waste of money to buy something expensive, because you may not know if you really want to become serious in film making or not.