Baragon (I'm a Monster) (transcripts)

I’M A MONSTER 	BARAGON
By 
Richard Morss
(Monster Distributes 2010	
ACTION 	DIALOGUE	Dur:
Opening Title 	 	
Sequence 1: Ext. The Loch. Misty.
A clear, empty expanse of water. (sfx gentle rippling.) 
Suddenly a long round neck dwindling to a small head with a slightly mad smiling mouth and squinty eyes erupts from below the water and thrusts towards camera. (For a moment the shape echoes the famous 1934 photo taken by RK Wilson)
She grins and preens in a self satisfied way.
She spins around but her grinning head still faces the camera as one- then two then three humps break the surface a- she squeezes her mouth shut and the humps suddenly flatten and she glides away, turning her head back again to admire her wake.
She leaves a V shaped wake.	Voice: (feisty mecurial small girl with amusing Caledonian accent.)
How’re you doing? So you wanna know who I am? I’m a bear.
Bear growls. It is not a very impressive growl.
(Pleased with herself)
Yeah, yeah I’m still working on it, okay? Any away, I live in Monster Island.
A New York street scene drops in around the bear with road signs, yellow taxis and skyscrapers. The bear is in the middle of the road.
Hey not here, not there!
New York is replaced with a typical Montana type landscape with forests and mountains.
Yeah that’s more like it. What about a little stream with lots of nice, juicy sir get empty in it.
I’ve been in loads of photos and films and still people think I don’t exist! –Would you like to see my humps? One – maybe two – or even three!! Ha ha! 
And I can squash them flat if I want- look!
A stream is painted in. Baragon waits a moment. 
Hey, where’s the salmon.	10:00:10:00
Sequence 2: The Loch nearby. 
A fish breaks the surface of the water,
NESSIE’S head flicks into the shot and grabs the fish and swallows it whole.
She glides across the lake showing off her humps and finally her long tail.
She surges towards camera.	No salmon appear. Bear is annoyed.
Okay I get it. I talk, you give me salmon? Yeah okay it’s a deal. So what kind of monster am I?
Baragon pulls down a flip chart behind him. There is an image of a baragon just like him on the chart.
I’m a baragon. We’re called baragon cos look at the spike on my back.
Close in on the flip chart image showing the distinctive Baragon’s ‘hump’.	
Sequence 3: Close up Baragon search.	 	
She peers skelly eyed ‘down the bottle’.
Cut away to pic of a paddle shaped flipper
Cut away to pic of a weird webbed foot.	And we got a great sense of smell. That helps us find food. Like a nice tasty salmon.
A barugon drops in beside Baragon.
I said salmon!
The barugon is replaced by a berry bush.
Okay I’ll settle for berries. 
Baragon eats a berry.
Mmmm not bad. So what else do you need to know? Oh yeah, we go to sleep over the winter. That’s cos there’s not much food around in the winter.	
Sequence 4: A large winter 
NESSIE’s head and neck pop up from behind the bush.
She moves sideways and appears to be going downstairs.
(sfx small slosh as she returns to the water)	The berry bush disappears. The Montana background drops back in. This time it is covered in snow. A chart drops in beside baragon. The chart has a simple, cross sectioned diagram of a baragon drawn on it. A pile of food hops into the diagram baragon’s mouth and the ‘diagram’ fattens up.
This means that we fatten up in the southern spring, so that we have reserves in our bodies for the big sleep-over.
Cut to Baragon lying in a bed in the snowy landscape.
We don’t sleep in beds!
The bed disappears.
We make dens for ourselves which we dig out with our big claws.
Or sometimes we’re lucky and we find caves.
A cave drops in beside Baragon.
Hey nice cave! We’ll sleep for five to eight months here. That’s a lot of sleep. There’s lots of other kinds of bears. There’s polar bears, black bears, spectacled bears; and really we’re just kind of shy and want to be left alone to go hunt for food.	
Sequence 5: Ext Monster Island:
a) surface
NESSIE swims out a little way talking.
She dives.
b) underwater:
Underwater we follow her as she dives- she has folded her legs so we still can’t see them and uses her long tail to drive herself down.
She stops.
c) surface:
The surface of the water steams.
d) underwater:
The water is a blur of dark colour and tiny weird shapes ad the camera keeps going down.
e) Nessie’s den:
We find NESSIE on the floor of the Loch coiled comfortably in the faint	Or sometimes we’re lucky and we find caves.
Hey nice cage!. We’ll sleep for five to eight months here. That’s a lot of sleep. There’s lots of other kinds of bears. There’s polar bears, black bears, spectacled bears; and really we’re just kind of shy and want to be left alone to go hunt for food.
A cave drops in beside Baragon.
All dinosaur was briefly seen as the climate changed. The scene featuring it was stock footage from I'm a Dinosaur. An image of a tyrannosaurus, a male and female velociraptor and a triceratops.
So, where’s my salmon?
A tinned salmon on a string drops down beside Baragon. He is not impressed. The tinned salmon springs back up. A real salmon jumps by Baragon.
Could you make them easier to catch do your den?.
More salmon jump in the stream in front of baragon.
Baragon tries to run after one.	
light.
She moves off to reveal a glowing clutch of eggs, before thrusting face to camera one last time, and disappearing as we hear her final ‘maybe’.	Baragon tries to run after one.
Hey come back here!.	
Closing credits	 	10:01:50:00
I’M A MONSTER 	(Monster Distributes 2010	
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