establishing shot


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establishing shot

n (Film) → Eröffnungsszene f
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Chapter 1 provides the "establishing shot." The next few chapters reel you in.
To describe these proceedings would be to stage an establishing shot of a movie that uses a single protagonist to traverse an entire milieu.
establishing shot *, plano de situacion *, toma establecedora *
Summary: Wow, how did the director get that sweet establishing shot of the whole battlefield?
The construction of the fountain sequence warrants attention for its unconventional design, including that it begins, not with an establishing shot of the fountain's plaza location, but with a close-up on the lovely face of one of the sea nymphs.
McCrea never provides the equivalent of an establishing shot, as it were.
An establishing shot of the White House shows the world's happiest protestors standing outside with placards saying things like "Everything's fine" and "No problems here."
Following the cues which the film presents, and if the violence of the establishing shot indeed does establish world, then what follows, by nature of the fact that it is a glaring juxtaposition, must clearly be meant to subvert the world established by the film.
As the credits fade the camera tilts down and the stars dissolve into a morning sky and panoramic establishing shot of a Frambork Poland.
An establishing shot of a Roman landscape follows this sequence, "gleaming apartment buildings stacked on top of one another with a round church dome bulging out in the middle of the flat rooftops" (Rhodes 116; fig.
Like many of Bruegel's compositions, the action is seen from a distance, similar to an establishing shot in a film.
The film opens with an establishing shot of a car steadily disappearing into darkness until the entire screen goes dim.