The Dark Times at Rockwell High: Introduction

In class work (today) I have been asked to watch this (extremely) famous clip from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) staring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. This clip was used to help think about different ways I could experiment with camera techniques and angles, as it's full of about 40 different camera shots in the space of 3 minutes.
The task was then given out. To create a similar style of video to the Psycho clip from one of the four starting points:

1. Setting a meal out on a table
2. A fight scene
3. Stealing a car
4. Murder

Out of the four choices I have decided to work with the idea of murder for my short experiment. At the moment I am in the process of finalizing the story-line and draft the storyboard, like the shower scene in Psycho I will be using a large amount of camera shots and skills, at the moment I have long shots, medium shots, close-ups, extreme close ups, tracking and all of these using a number of different angles. 

The next few posts will consist of the story-line, storyboards and other shot planning, casting information, planning of filming and editing, then finally the end result with the personal deadline of 27th June 2011 (2 weeks).