I love this video because it satirizes American films that misrepresent people of color by having characters with the general stereotypical traits of their race. But most importantly, I can totally relate to this.
In the first minute of this video, I noticed that the shots had the upper left and upper right intersections of the rule of thirds grid directed at heads of the characters. Plus, the vertical lines of the rule of thirds grid were positioned upon their bodies. When someone had a line during a moment of intimacy/closeness/self-reflection, the video would cut to a medium close-up of the character. If the character was looking and talking to someone else, it would be a medium shot. If they were taking to each other or one person was doing something to the other character, the there would be a full body shot of both characters in the room.
In the mugging scene, the editor cut alternately to shots of each person's face very quickly (each shot lasted between 1 second- 5 seconds) to show the acceleration of the quarrel between the two characters. To show that the story is focused on the protagonist, Freddie Wong, and to have the audience fill the shoes of this character, the shots of the protagonist's face were closer compared to the shots of the mugger's face, and there was use of stereophonic sound of the fly. When a Freddie was in a state of introversion, the shots were closer, but when the lines were clearly spoken for the other character to react to, the shots were wider so the audience can anticipate and see the other character's response- and whenever a character was in a state between introversion and intercession, the shots were somewhere in between. For example, the shot where Freddie is swatting the fly with his is a close-up (0:55/1:06), the shot where he's rambling about "all the -u's" he knows is a medium close-up (1:31), and the shot where he is showing off his moves to scare off the mugger is a medium long-shot (1:41).
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