Learning to edit before starting to shoot on your own may not be for everyone, but I think it's an excellent suggestion. You may even want to pursue this for a while before shooting, but if you then want to shoot on your own, your shooting will be informed by what you have learned to do with editing, and will likely be more disciplined as a result.

It's all too easy to shoot a bunch of footage that you then have no idea what to do with. This is a frequent beginner's problem.

If you do get a camera right away, one good discipline is trying to make very short films that are edited in camera, or as close to edited in camera as you can make them.

Fred Camper
Chicago

On 5/5/2014 7:14 PM, LJ Frezza wrote:
If you have a computer, I'm from the school that says you don't even need a camera. You can try re-editing footage from a number of sources like YouTube, DVDs, etc. It's a lot cheaper, especially if you can finagle yourself some free editing software.
-LJ


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