Analysing work of previous students

This is the first humourous video I have seen that has been recreated by another person. I admire this as I think that it is a very difficult to do as it could be very risky and the song choice is crutial when choosing to do a video of this genre. The first time I watched it I wasn't really anaylsing it, I just watched it to see if I could use it for this post. However, the next few times I watched the video I analysed it and interpreted it. There are some very clever editing techniques and camera shots used in this students work. The first one I noticed was the opening shot and this was edited in black and white and rotated onto full screen. I think that the use of black and white could represent a 'classic situation', 2 young people in love but eventually things turn sour between the 2 of them. There is a slight low angle shot on the couple dancing and smiling and this connotes their vunerablilty and their innocence. I think if this was done in, for example a midshot or long shot it wouldn't give the audience any clues to what is going to happen.
They have used some simple white on black text to tell the audience the changes in the time. I think without this is could be very confusing and seem rushed. The use of a sans serif font could connote the idea that their relationship is average and not very serious.
There is a midshot of the 'girlfriend' texting her boyfriend the words 'I luv u'. This is very colloquial and modern. It is also common amoungst younger teenagers (ages around 13 - 15) trying to be mature and grown up in their relationships.
After this, for me this is where the humour begins when you can obviously see that the boyfriend is not happy and expresses this by looking unemotional and motionless around the girl. The use of dramatic irony becomes humourous here because the boy is very obviously unhappy and the girl doesn't seem to notice, just carries on how things were before. The student has filmed the dramatic irony scenes in the same places as they were when the couple were getting on. This represents a repetition in their life and prehaps a bordem.
As the boyfriend breaks up with his girlfriend, there is a shot of the girlfriend in what I think is her bedroom, there is a poster in the background on the wall that reads 'All You Need Is Love'. I think the humorous things about this part in the film is the irony and you can see that the poster is still on the wall throughout the music video.
I think this video is very well timed. When I say this I mean in a way how the characters actions change as the music changes from major to minor key and vice versa. For example, when the boyfriend is newly single, he does a dance with some others as the chorus begins. This is another funny part in the video and I think this is because of the exaduration of his emotions, he seems overcome with joy and relief.
The video uses a lot of the stereotypes associated with a heart broken girl and a newly single boy. In terms of the girl, she sits destraut eating out of a large tub of ice cream and lays on her bed crying. On the other hand is the boy, he seems fresh faced and happy to see his friends he has probably left behind after being in a ralationshi, he starts to workout more, concentrating on his apprence. The girl does the oppersite and seems to 'let go' a little in a tee shirt and yoga trousers.
There is the use of a pause in the video of 3 boys (inc. the main character) jumping in the air doing a high five. I think this effective as it gives connotations of happy memories, because the pause creates a photograph like effect. 
The boyfriend also returns to a place he has been with his girlfriend (the running track) alone and is much happier to be there alone rather than with her. This is another use of the exadurated emotioms to create humour.
I can only see 2 things that I think could of been improved. The first one being the 2 dances in the first chorus that do a duet. The dancing starts well but then unfortuantly they seem to be slightly out of time towards the middle/end. One alse looks a bit unsure of what they were doing at the end and look to the other for reassurence when they should be looking into the camera. After the dancer tries to copy the other and is a bit out of time and sadly not as good as the rest of it. I personally would of refilmed this part and made sure that the dancers knew exactly what they were doing.
The second and final thing I think could of been changed was the weather in some of the shots towards end. These scenes are meant to be overcome with happiness, and they are apart from the weather. Obviously the weather is out of the students hands, but altough it was a fairly bright day, the clouds looked very dark and miserable. I think I would of waited for a really sunny day and filmed then. Saying that, the students schedule could of been very packed and precise and maybe couldn't afford to wait for another day, so this should be taken into account.
Overall, I think this video was very funny, effective and successful.