Start at the begining and when you get to the end....stop! haha just kidding. Agreeing to Tin, you have started just don't stop. Film stuff mess around on the computer create small little skits. I used to come up with 20 ideas and then try and shoot all of them. Just small 5-10 minute skits. Random stuff it doesn't have to make much sense. Watch some internet shows, come up with one of your own. For a while I was doing a show called "The Commercial Guru" it wasn't very great but it was fun and that's the bottom line. Now here I am working on a documentary and constantly getting help from this forum.
Really?
Might you post some links to this intriguing sounding idea?
Those books sound like a good idea. If you can afford it (and I'm not there yet-almost though)get an external microphone. Doesn't have to be 500 dollar jobbie, even borrowing a friends. See how differently the sound comes through the external one vs the one in the camera. Even if you can only manage the camera mic because of budget right now, that's okay for what you're wanting to do. But sound DOES make such a very big difference, and you can buy a 40 dollar microphone at Wal-Tar-martget (you know what I mean) (Yes, Alcove, don't mean to make you cry
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One final thing(again if you can afford it, if not fine)a TRIPOD! Sounds so simple, yet it make such a difference: So to sum up, thus far:
Get out and shoot, shoot, shoot.
Edit if you've got the means (windows comes with Moviemaker)
Tripod(if you can afford)
Sound(If you can afford, even cheap mic).
Lighting-daylight bulbs aren't that expensive and can make a huge difference to start)
See if you can pick the aforementioned books, any of them, to read.
If you can schooling, even stuff teaches the basics is great. But you can have a filmolology in degree of ABCDE, and it means nothing unless you start shooting. And schools can have some nice equipment.
But above all-SHOOT!