brash_stryker said:

I'm using a PC with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sounds good. I'm using a mac with Final Cut, but most of the concepts are the same. My personal advice would be to get a rough cut of the movie made so you can test pacing, plausibility, etc. then, once you have that, work with sfx problems you know can be solved (ie. seen it done before) and find out how they were done. You may learn enough from that to figure out what can be done in later scenes. Basically, the more focused you are on a single problem, the more likely you are to get the exact help you need.