Camera Angles and Short Film

After my AS film, where I dont think I experimented with camera angles very much, I would really like to try and do interesting things, when it comes to using the camera. The video above gave me alot of help and reminded me of the different camera angles. But it also went one step further. It gave examples of why you would use certain camera angles for what.
In my film I want to try and make the audience really connect with the subject or whats going on. I want them to be able to remember their days at school and make them almost feel nostalgic. Before I thought that I would have to make sure I had a lot of close up shots, to try and gauge the emotion needed. However, now watching the video above, I realised that maybe use of varying wide shots might be better. I need to remember the audience is out of the film world, they are looking apon on the action, so undoubtably they are going to be slightly distanced.
I want there to be a lot of cross cutting, but maybe fading in and out to show the smoothness of the journey through childhood and then adolescence. As a teenager, I know how quickly the childhood years of life goes, and you don't know where time goes, if I can display this through use of smooth cross cutting through a series of shots.

I watched the clip above and it gave me a lot of inspiration to be more adventerous with my shots, you dont have to have the protagonist as the subject of the shot the whole time. I think that this relates well with my short film. Although my film is like someones journey through their school life, I dont want it to be specific character, I dont want it to be about their story, I want it to be fairly open so that each viewer can relate to their own experiences.