The locations used in the clip are classrooms, a playground and corridors are within a school in America.
The mise en scene used to let us infer the school location is mainly through costume and setting. From the setting we can see there are lockers, classrooms, school buses, students and teachers; which all connote to 'school'.
Costume is used to differentiate the characters, for example students at the school wear a uniform, portraying a lower status contrasting to the teachers who wear a suit or dress. The characters' below wear their respective bags on one shoulder, making themselves out to be cool, other ordinary students would wear their bags ordinarily. Donnie Darko however doesn't wear his bag, leading us to perceive him to be a rebel and problematic as he doesn't obey the rules.
Props are also used to express characters' personalities and hobbies, an example is the female teacher who is portrayed to be strict and intolerant through holding a book called 'attitudinal beliefs' which shows she is a strong deducing character. Another example of a prop used to give implications of a character is when the clip shows a girl reading a book alone- her character can be inferred to be lonely, rejected and unwanted. 
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