Well Shadow fang, your are starting in the right place here on VM. You do not have to go to film school to start a career in producing videos, there are a lot of good information here that you can sink your teeth into. A good place to start ishttp://www.videomaker.com/learn/ In addition, you may want to check out the web training classes they have here as well. You can learn, using your camera, lighting, editing, and more for a reasonable amount of money. Not to mention, these forums has a vast amount of information on them.
I hope this helps.
