Early treatment

This is the first treatment, written down by me. We chose to dump this in favour of something the others felt would be more exciting and less "standard."



An EGG bounces down a cliffside, hitting a branch, and is launched off into the air. It lands in a nest. Soon after, it starts cracking, wiggling and bouncing. Finally a head pops up, partially hidden by an eggshell (pretty much like a hat). The creature in the egg further struggles to free itself, and manages to fall out of the nest. It falls over flat, its “hat” falling off, revealing the head/face. It’s a DRAGON.

The fall has further cracked the egg, so that the dragon manages to burst free with its wings. It shakes off the eggshell, looking around. CAMERA switches to a close up of an OSTRICH, that’s blinking and tilting its head from side to side, looking curious. It looks none too bright.

The dragon looks up, making a questioning sound. The ostrich blinks a bit more, before turning around and motions with its head for the dragon to follow. The ostrich moves off, and the dragon looks after it for a bit before following, not yet sure of how its feet work. It sees that the ostrich is getting distant, and starts to hurry along, looking quite clumsy. After nearly catching up it stumbles on a rock, falling flat on its belly, making it blow out a ball of flame, that hits the ostrich directly in the behind. The ostrich howls, and leaps into the air. It gets very angry, and points the dragon off back to the nest with its wing, squawking. The dragon looks confused but gets the point after getting another admonishment.

The dragon sits and sulks outside the nest while the ostrich wanders off foraging for food. The Ostrich wanders into a dark valley, oblivious to its surroundings. A PREDATOR stalks the shadows, closing in on the ostrich. It pounces, the ostrich barely avoiding its claws, losing a few of its scorched tail feathers in the process. The predator chases it around, the ostrich running around squawking in a big circle. The predator corners it, getting ready to move in for the kill. Suddenly it yanks to a stop, a confused look on its face. CAMERA shifts to focus on the dragon biting the predators tail, trying to pull it off. Predator yanks its tail, tossing the dragon into a nearby wall. It starts bouncing and sliding down the wall, while the predator closes in on the ostrich again. Dragon flaps its wings to get clear of the wall, but they aren’t strong enough to support it, so it falls to the ground, landing on it's behind. The predator turns to look with a growl, just as the dragon lands, the landing making it burst out humongous gout of flame, scorching the predator and turning it black. It crumbles to ashes.

The ostrich forgives the dragon for its previous scorching, inviting it to follow along again. They start trudging along, with the dragon walking behind, when again it stumbles in a rock, falling flat. Screen goes black to the sound of the ostrich screaming.