Hungry Puppy

For my art 450 project, I am going to steal the idea my girlfriend suggested, a hungry puppy trying to get a cake off the top of a referidgerator.
Here is my brainstorming for the story or the shots:

Puppy jumping up to try to get at cake.
Opening. Pan up fridge to cake.
Rotate around cake to see puppy down below.
Cut to camera behind puppy, seeing back of puppy’s head and cake on top of fridge.
Cutie to puppies face drooling.
Cut to cake.
Cut to puppy trying things below, with an edit each time.
Tries:
• Standing jump
• Run and jump
• Stack and build something, tips over and falls
Cut to puppy laying, panting, and giving up.
Cut to puppy staring at the problem, seeing counter or alternate way (camera zooms to show audience what puppy is thinking).
?? cut to puppy having dawn of idea?? (need set up blackout ending…)

Black out,
Fade up on puppy laying after eating all cake.
the end.

The really fun part is I would like to do this in Maya. I'm thinking it's about a minute of video, give or take.
So this term may be taken up with pre production stuff, like learning then building a rigged dog of suitable cuteness, skinning him... making the room... yeah. I'll try to list it all out later.