Night 2 Forms: Scene 2

I hope other people more involved in this scene post up, because what I wanted to write about a little was the interaction between Michael and myself. Joe was a new arrival, with George showing him around the apartment. The whole time Michael and Aurora and I sat in a bedroom, Michael on the mattress with Aurora, me on the wall. Michael and I were supposed to just be having a conversation, but trying to keep our voices down so we weren't distracting. Aurora would then get up and interact with the other people when they came in.

The great thing is that Michael and I got REALLY into our conversation, which revolved around music. We completely ignored everything else going on; what was being shot, what was being directed, what the direction was. We just kept going, doing what we're doing, talking about lots of different music, beards, hair cuts, etc. So when people interrupted us, we paid attention to them only as long as we had to, then returned to our conversation. It worked really well, and had a lot of stuff that I want to explore again, both spontaneously and written. I really liked, and I think Michael did, too, the point where I was trying to sing/hum how a few songs went at a very low volume.

My favorite part was right when we ended, as well, as contentious as that may be. George sits down next to us, starts going through Joe's backpack, Joe asks "What are you doing?", George pulls out a book, and Michael breaks from mine and his conversation and says "That's my book!"

He starts flipping through it, asks "How did you know?", opens the book to confirm, says "Oh my god, wait...Yeah, this is totally my book, mine said [no idea what he said was inside the book here] here." George didn't know what to do and kept looking away, then we all of a sudden cut, I was laughing, people kind of panicked, and I said "That's his book, that's awesome." I think that spontaneity and the sudden realization that the scene had shifted into a place no one knew what to do was fantastic. Now, the challenge is writing a scene that incorporates that, because the next improv, Michael will expect that to be his book, which will provide a new opportunity. There will be expectation for all the actors, and that will give another ending for it.

That's all I got for today.