Great question! I hope others can provide you with some links, I don’t have any myself sadly as I am not really in the video production field anymore. But I was in it last year – so if you have any specific questions or areas that you want tips on, let me know and I’ll see what my brain holds!
I have a few refining questions for you which will allow any subsequent answers to be of more value to you: will you be video taping live action actors? Do you intend to incorporate computer graphics? How large is your knowledge on microphones (the most critical point in video production with sound)? What equipment do you have now, consumer end or professional?
The #1 tip I can give you is to go out there and do it. Nothing beats going out there, recording, and evaluating the footage on your computer. Sure it’s great to know the principles behind appropriate lighting/sound/makeup/etc but it’s really hard, if not impossible to make a video perfect to start with no matter how much knowledge you have. Especially if you’re doing this as a hobby, nothing will ever beat storyboarding up a simple minute video, recording it, and learning from what you do.
And hey, sometimes you can make a really awesome film even with a cheapo camera. My point and shoot digital still camera, Canon SD1100IS has a movie mode that could be used to create a damn fine looking YouTube movie, after edited together in software. Remember, only half of video production is in making it look and sound good with the tech you have, the other half is in having something interesting and compelling to say so that the audience is entertained. Cheapo films done on the fly like this give you great experience in storytelling, pacing, developing a concept from start to end, etc.
#2 tip: on-camera mics suck. If you are not doing a silent movie, sound is the most important thing hands down. If people can’t hear what the characters are saying, it’s all over. When I made my movie (in university, in a team of 5, a budget of $1000, all equipment provided) we had one person dedicated to holding the boom mic (the mic on the pole, held above actors’ heads but not in frame) and he also was in charge of post processing the audio through filters to make it sound good.
#3 tip: there are a ton of resources out there, not necessarily blogs or youtube videos, but tons of books and studies done on films, in term of capability, technique, writing a good story, the entire pipeline, etc. One book I recommend for visual storytelling in general is Inspired 3D Short Film Production, it covers a lot more beyond just creating 3D short films, including storyboarding, writing a story in general, the overall pipeline, audio considerations, etc.
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