This turns out to be really easy. Head over to Saddleback College and introduce yourself to Charlie Meyers. He chairs the Film Department. His department can teach you how to shoot, how to edit, and how to direct. A year from now, taking part-time classes, you will be making a film (a short one) several qualitative leaps beyond what you can do now, or what you might even think you could do. They are that good. Plus, as a community college, it is ridiculously affordable.
And that's not to sell Chapman or SC short. Chapman is a great school, and SC may have the best program in the country. I've taken classes at Saddleback, and I've learned quite a bit.
