This is a level two-shot which is typically in keeping with the rest of the film. As I've said before I always want to present Joe and Michael as a pair close enough to understand each others personal space and always confortable with one another.
Here I've positioned Michael so that he is kneeling while Joe sits in the chair, this, I hope, establishes that he is there to help and comfort Joe by bringing himself to Joe's level. He is offering him the bowl of nuts in a friendly gesture but at the begining of the scene it's also supposed to suggest his avoidence of the real issue as Joe at this point feels Michael is to blame for his repeated rejection throughout the night for not telling him who it is who likes him. Joe meanwhile has his head in his hand as if he has a headache coming on. It's a reasonably stark contrast to the optimism he showed on the sofa a couple of scenes earlier before he tried his chat-up line on Natalie.
The way they are dressed is also relevant. In the party scenes I wanted them to look uncomfortably smart like they, Joe is particular, were having to work to improve themselves for this unattainable new girlfriend and again create a contrast between the scene before where Joe could walk about in a lilac dressing gown and Michael wouldn't even question it.
Finally the scene takes place in a corner in an effort to signify Joe's retreat from the party which I also aim to compliment with the sound as the background party noise softens during Joe and Michael's chat and fades away as the music leading up to the kiss fades in.
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