Principles of Continuity

The scene starts with a MCU of Will Smith dialling on the phone, when it cuts to a C of his supervisor calling him away to the office, which is when it whip pans at an angle to a close up of Will Smith, then cutting to a CU from in front of him. The CU shows the shock on his face, how he doesn't really know how to respond. The anxiety is seen with the close up, which increases the intesity of the scene and helps the audience understand more about how he feels. The camera then follows him in a MS while he gets up, puts on his jacket with his whole body shaking, and walks away to the office. The shot is focused on him putting on the jacket only, which is why the rest of the frame is out of focus and blurred. He then walks off, with this particular shot following him and ending in a MLS, to show that he has moved away towards the office which keeps the flow going and keeps to the continuity of the scene. The board members are seen through the glass walls in the background, to include them into the scene. This is the master shot of the office, which is used again.
It then cuts to a MS as he walks into the room, with a match on action as the cut is in perfect time with him entering. The boss is then introduced into the conversation with it cutting to a MS of him, and then back and fourth between him and Will Smith a few times as they shake hands, before he shakes hands with the other board member. To re-establish the office scene but still keep with the continuity of the sequence, it cuts to the master shot of the 4 people in the board room with the office noise in the background to show the surroundings once more, as he still moves on to shake the 3rd person, keeping with the match on action rule.
Once he sits down, it uses the over the shoulder shot on both sides of the conversation to show both points of view. It uses this technique repeatedly to give the effect of a shot-reverse-shot, cutting between both characters and the conversation to put the audience in the action of the scene. The shots go from MS shots of both to an MCU of the boss, before cutting to a CU of Will Smith to show the emotion on his face, and make it even more powerful so that the audience can see how he holds back his tears and stops himself from crying which is the main emphasis of the shot. This CU also seems to slow down the shot, before reverting back to normal as he gets up and shakes their hands before leaving the room. The whole conversation in the room keeps with the 180 degree rule, as they showed both ends of the conversation but did not break the rule, another factor in the sequences continuity.
There is a matched cut as he walks out of the room, with both shots flowing together perfectly. The MS is carried on as he walks through, which is then cut to a CU of him walking. This shot is just the same as the MS but focus only at his face, and so it doesn't break the 30 degree rule either. The shot carries on to him going to his desk, where it cuts to a side angle of him stumbling to get his things before reverting to the same shot continued as he carries on walking out. Reverting to the same shot again is another technique with goes with the continuity of the scene. It then cuts to him walking straight outside, but this works well as his walking motion is kept the same so the idea of him having walked straight through the building is given. Here is gives an MLS of him and even though he is in a crowd, it manages to focus on him.
This sequence is one done very well, with the editing being flawless as none of the continuity rules are broken once, and the whole scene flows together perfectly with the match on action and 180 degree rules kept very well, with the cutting of shots at the right time to not make them too quick and to allow the emotion to be seen on Will Smith's face; The principles of continuity are all seen in this sequence.