Seeking websites on Techniques For Shooting Good Footage

Can anyone here recommend a website with good ideas for how to shoot video? I now have a book to guide me for the making/editing of a movie: iLife '04: TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY / Read Less - Learn More ....
.... but I also would like to learn some simple tips and advice for the actual shooting of footage.
— Lorna in Southern California
17" flatscreen iMac, 1 GHz Power PC G4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   LaCie external hard drive, 111 Gigabytes

A tutorial I like a lot is "Making Awesome iMovies",
the $40 video CD offered by dvcreators. It's easy to
understand, entertaining, well planned, and
introduces both basic and not-so-basic steps of
storyboarding, shooting and editing video.
Although the update for iMovie 5 is not yet
available, this video still gets two thumbs up from
me.
http://www.dvcreators.net/products/maim.html
(Don't miss the demo on that page.)
Karl
I will take a look at that page, but at this point, I want free how-to tips on shooting a video. I plunked down my money on the VISUAL book on iLife '04, and that's gonna have to be enough for now. Probably techniques for taking home movies are a lot less difficult to absorb that all of the procedures in iMovie 4 and all the other programs.
Thank you for the suggestion. I will check it out now.
— Lorna in Southern California

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