QUOTE(Rhiannon @ Dec 7 2008, 12:22 PM)
Save yourself the trouble of floundering around confused and do the First Step tutorials under How To Play before actually starting a game. It demonstrates the core mechanics and gives you an opportunity to try them, too.
I'm not sure if it teaches you about break throughs, but otherwise it teaches you just about all of the mechanics that occur during an actual scene, and not the ones inbetween scenes.
If anything, the inbetween scene mechanics will probably asked about.