When directing this scene, the director followed all of the rules pretty closely. First, he established the 180 degree line, and did not cross it. The shot went from the first man, to the second man, to the horse, but stayed on one side of the 180 degree line the whole time. The eye line of the man goes directly to the man at the computer, and then the shot cuts to that man. The man is looking at the computer the whole time, so there is no problem when the final shot is of the horse on the computer. This final shot is helpful because it is the punchline of the whole scene.
The Rule of Thirds is not followed throughout the whole clip. In the first shot, that is what the third man is for, to fill out that section in the rule of thirds. Then the second shot, the mans head is directly on one of the dividing lines, drawing all of our attention to him. And the final shot is composed of just the horse, by the horse takes up exactly one third of the shot.
This scene does not have enough shots to make the Rule of 30 a real problem. The shots are clean and simple because it just starts with one wide shot, then jumps to a close up, so the 30 degrees that the camera should be separated does not matter much.
This director knew what he was doing when he put this clip together. All of the rules that can be followed are, and it makes these five seconds seem clean and professional.
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