Im 14 years old and I love writing screenplays and filming stuff. I just got my first actual cam corder for Christmas. I'm not sure the model but its a jvc with 30x optical zoom and a sliding LCD monitor. Anyway, I was curious at what would be a good film to practice with for my future references. Because i would much like to start a film project. By that I mean what type And i don't nessisaraly mean witch genre i mean what kind. Animation (such as stop motion, good example is the nightmare before Christmas.) or just a normal film (not sure of 'technical' term) by writing a screenplay and a script and having actual actors in it (and by actors i of course mean friends, who happen to be in drama club at school) So to anyone who has made a short film or anything as such what do you suggest?I'm well aware I'm young haha. I just want to make a low budget movie for myself and possibly a project for school. I have a very good editing software that I bought for around $500 so I'm set there

Well, u are still too young...to say the least(no offense... :). But, just for your information: Adobe Premiere and Vegas Video are excellent software products to develop your own movies. They are as well used in proffessional video editing in Hollywood. Merry christmas sweetie

Well ive made lil music videos with my sims 2, but they have stories. I think its good to start out small. The more i made, the better i got at editing and stuff. So if ur gonna do anything, keep them short, dont make real long movies, so ull get better and gain progress. Have fun! O and try to start out with Windows movie maker or something.Here are my videos by the wayhttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MsLightBright

The easiest place to start is Music Video. Pick your favorite song (preferably techno). The advantage you have is you don't need to record sound, so that's not going to ruin your video. The hardest work is on the editing side by the way.Stop motion animation is fun too. It's a lot of work, but you don't need to deal with actors until you get to the voice part, and that's easy to deal with.Documentaries are good to try too.Then comes the hardest (IMO). Directing short films with actual scripts and stories. The hardest part is to get people to be excited about the film and have them know what they're doing. You gonna have to be flexible because when you realize things don't turn out as they planned, you're gonna have to make drastic changes to the script and make something new, yet still interesting.Anyway, good luck.