The sequence I used is from the cult comedy film 'Office Space', where one worker loses his sense of fear for getting fired from his job and says everything you're not supposed to say when being questioned about job work by the executives from the company you work for.
The sequence starts with an establishment shot to show the setting of the interior of an office room in which three men seat. Two of whom are questioning a man about his typical day at work. The camera arcs around to show a side profile of the men questioning and to end with a shot from their perspective facing the man for us to notice the distance between them and then to see their reactions to what he is saying.
Then the camera cuts to a face-on medium close up shot of the two men opposite the man being questioned, so the audience can now see how dumbfounded they are with what he is saying, showing us what the questioned man ,(Peter), is observing.
After some dialogue in which a medium close up of Peter and the two men are shown one after the other, the camera fades into the next shot to show a passing of time and the next shot is shot at angle to show the size of the room and how relaxed Peter looks in it compared to the other two men to show that he is enjoying this conversation and is confident about what he's been talking about. The camera arcs to show two men walking in the background behind the glass interior to give a sense of the atmosphere of the office building.
Then there are some more of the same medium close up dialogue shots from each character's perspective and the sequence ends with an over the shoulder shot from Peter's perspective as he gets up to shake hands with both men, so we can see how happy they are that he accepted his new job offer, and then he makes his exit out the camera's view and so from the meeting itself.
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