Film Treatment – Awestruck

Working title: Awestruck

Cast List

Muhammad Waseem as Sean

Saad Imran as Nick

Daneya Khan as Emily

Synopsis

This story is a day in life of two best friends Nick and Sean who are also

roommates out of which Sean is gay and is secretly crushing on Nick roommate.

While Nick on the other hand likes as his classmate Emily. This movie outlines

Sean’s possessiveness for Nick and how he stands up for him throughout but in

the end Sean’s caring nature is taken in a wrong way by Emily when she confronts

that she likes Sean and Sean, well he confronts that he likes Nick.

Duration : 5 minutes

ACT 1

Scene 1

Nick and Sean are sleeping. Nick wakes up and finds that sean is holding his hand. He shrugs it off and

goes to the washroom.

Scene 2

He washes his face and closes the washroom door. Title appears

ACT 2

Scene 1

Sean wakes up and finds that Nick is not at home. He gets worried and goes to the nearby park to check

if Nick is there for a jog or not.

ACT 3

Scene 1

Sean enters the park and finds Nick and Emily jogging together. This sight makes him jealous so he runs

up to Nick and grabs his hand.

Scene 2

Sean tells nick that he got worried and that he shouldn’t have left him alone because after all, they are

partners!

Scene 3

Emily gives Nick a confused look while Nick is embarrassed for Sean’s behavior.

ACT 4

Scene 1

Nick is working on some project while Sean is trying to make up for his embarrassing behavior earlier in

the park that day. And suddenly Nick’s phone rings.

Scene 2

Sean picks up the phone and finds out it’s Emily calling.

Scene 3

Emily asks for Nick’s help with a college assignment over the phone but Sean tells her that Nick is busy

and working with him and she can’t be helped.

Scene 4

Emily hangs up the phone.

Scene 5

Nick gets to know it was Emily calling so he again gets angry at Sean for telling her that Nick isn’t

available for help when he himself was working on the same assignment.

Scene 6

Nick throws a pillow at Sean and tells him that he is going over to Emily’s, nut as usual, Sean tags along

with him.

ACT 5

Scene 1

Nick, Sean and Emily are sitting and talking when Emily randomly starts asking questions from them.

Since Nick is a workaholic he doesn’t answer her much and Sean on the other hand tries to give all the

answers, even the one she has been asking from Nick so that Emily doesn’t get to know much about.

Scene 2

Emily finds it fascinating how Sean knows so much about Nick and how intelligent and spontaneous he is

and that’s when she starts feeling differently for Sean.

ACT 6

Scene 1

Sean is in his room playing a game on his phone when he gets a text message on his phone from Emily

which says, that they should hang out together more because they along pretty well.

Scene 2

Sean looks at the text message, takes a gulp and types in “but I’m gay”

Scene 3

Emily receives Sean’s text message and the phone drops from her hand in shock.

THE END