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A wide shot that covers the whole room or background, used to set the scene, and tell the viewer visually where the scene will be taking place. Almost always placed at the beginning of the scene. All too often the outside of the building — Perfect Strangers, Seinfeld, Happy Days, Cheers, The Bob Newhart Show — with a snip of theme music. Occasionally zooming into one window. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Science fiction shows often use shots of the spacecraft or planet involved. Establishing shots have fallen out of favor somewhat since the '90s. Current movies and TV dramas (24, Lost, Heroes, to name a few) go right into the action of the scene. Captions or title cards may be used instead to establish location or time setting. The Law & Order franchise uses distinctive title cards to establish time and place. Beware of Television Geography. Often accomplished, especially in older films, with Stock Footage. Expect the addition of a Title In. See also Silent Scenery Panel for the Comicbook equivalent. Also see Meanwhile, Back at the..., as these shots can sometimes but not always graphically represent a "Meanwhile...". When used in videogames this tends to be an excuse for Scenery Porn. Cue the Billiard Shot is a Sub-Trope. Often overlaps with Eiffel Tower Effect, when the establishing shot is of an iconic landmark. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples: |
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Plenty of examples of this used in Bones - particularly an outside shot of the 'Jeffersonian' Museum. The episode "Yanks in the U.K." used many weary shots of London landmarks, relating to Britain Is Only London. |
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Psych likes to use establishing shots of the police station, the titular Psych office, and and what's supposed to be a Santa Barbara beach outside of said office. | |
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The Simpsons makes use of these. Every time we see the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a crow caws in the background. In earlier seasons, a shot of the supermarket would always be accompanied with a stray shopping cart drifting into the street. | |
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Kickin' It has a particularly heavy-handed use of establishing shots, with the exteriors of the mall and school being noticeably out of scale to the limited indoor sets. | |
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iCarly have them for pretty much every location, but they aren't always used. Some important places that appear in one episode get them, such as the convention centre that the Carly vs Shelby fight took place in. A few strange examples, such as when Freddie was hit by a truck in iSaved Your Life, they show an establishing shot of a speeding ambulance, but it cuts to Bushwell, where Sam tells Spencer about it, and the scene after Freddie is seen he's at home recovering. In iSaved Your Life, they changed the usual establishing shot of Bushwell Plaza by adding a storm, which was in response to complaints that Seattle which is a very rainy city in real life being completely sunny on the show. | |
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Establishing shots of the Connors' house and other locations in Roseanne were all still photographs, except for the end of one Halloween Episode in which the house was represented by a model (which exploded). | |
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Similarly, while Sacred Heart Hospital in Scrubs frequently has an establishing shot, the shot for the apartment building where the main characters live is only seen a few times in the very first episodes, and then very rarely afterward. | |
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The 100 uses a fair number of establishing shots, particularly of The Ark space station. Most notably, the opening credits play out over various locations on Earth as seen from above, with the last location shown changing each episode so that it also serves as an Establishing Shot for the first scene shown after the credits. | |
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Cowboy Bebop is really fond of shots like these; whenever the show wants to indicate that time passes without anything interesting going on, it tends to cut to showing off the surroundings in series of still images while the jazz soundtrack plays uninterrupted in the background. | |
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Whenever we switch the story of Tower of God to another floor, we get an establishing shot of its settlements, usually flying cities and castles. Yes, inside the Tower. | |
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The Order of the Stick did some when the party was split. | |
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American Dad! often shows the outside of the Smiths' house, especially at the beginning of episodes. | |
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Serious Sam The First Encounter and Second Encounter have quite a lot of these; whenever the player enters a new wide area, there is a lengthy cutscene that has the camera explore every nook and cranny of the area, usually also drawing attention to important artifacts and useful items that might be around. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, several clips of the entrance to Cheyenne Mountain were shot 10 days before the series began and were not supplemented with new shots until the 9th or 10th season. Stargate Atlantis uses an aerial shot of Atlantis as the establishing shot. |
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The RoboCop ripoff R.O.T.O.R. contains a series of nested establishing shots that go on for several minutes, dawdling over the picturesque minutiae of the hero's ranch house and kitchen counter. | |
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An episode of Prison Break shows an establishing shot of Tijuana with a Bital bank sign in the foreground... but the problem is, that by that time, Bital was already replaced by HSBC. | |
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It's been pointed out that what is supposed to be the Matthews' house in Boy Meets World doesn't match the set used for the inside at all. | |
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Mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the movie Zombie Nightmare when an establishing building shot is followed by a rather disparate interior shot ("It went from a high-rise to someone's basement."). Or when the shot is for a long time, to which one of them usually says "They're establishing the hell out of this building!" |
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Daria uses these almost every scene change. | |
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Similarly, Star Trek: The Original Series had several matte paintings that were recycled; the most notable of these was of a bronze-colored castle-like structure that frequently appeared in the closing credits. | |
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The Brady Bunch often used an outside establishing shot of their house. The "outside" scenes on the show (which were shot on a sound stage, not on location) didn't quite match the establishing shot. | |
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Traditionally, Star Wars material begins with the camera panning down from the starfield after the title scroll finishes to show a planet and often starships going somewhere. | |
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Saturday Night Live uses establishing shots for just about any sketch that doesn't have its own theme song. | |
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Fawlty Towers used the establishing shot of the hotel during the opening credits for the Running Gag of the sign's letters being rearranged to spell things like "Farty Towels" and "Fatty Owls." | |
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Overused ad nauseum in Tommy Wiseau's The Room, providing some snark bait for the riffers. | |
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How to Be Indie uses idiosyncratic establishing shots formed of what look like cardboard cutouts of the relevant buildings that rise up to show the transition to a new location. | |
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El Goonish Shive did this to introduce the furniture store Swedekea as a setting. | |
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There is an establishing shot of the Weir home in the pilot of Freaks and Geeks, which is notable for being very out of sync with the tone and feel of the rest of the show. | |
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The Bill never used to bother with this, but it later started to use a series of exterior stock shots of the various locations where we see the officers (the police station, hospital, etc) before cutting to interior scenes. The bad part? There are only about five or six alternative stock shots of each location, so get used to seeing the same two nurses walking past the hospital — you'll be seeing them a lot. | |
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CSI frequently uses random aerial shots of the entire city, presumably to show the viewer that the the plot-relevant areas haven't suddenly grown legs and moved to another city in the last couple of minutes. | |
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In JAG the exterior of the in-universe JAG Headquarters building in Falls Church, Virginia, is shown once or twice in most episodes. | |
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In Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey when Shadow, Chance, and Sassy make it to the top of the first mountain, they (and the audience) get a good look at just what lies ahead for them. | |
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ER also has a subversion, in that the outside of the hospital is not shown until the very end of the final episode. But it's played straight with the inside of the hospital, as the second scene of the first episode follows Dr. Mark Greene through a hallway of the ER toward the admissions desk. | |
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And every apartment in Italy has a view of either the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Colosseum. This was parodied in Police Squad!, when Drebin by means of voiceover informs the viewer that he is going to Little Italy to follow up a lead, and the Colosseum is shown in the background. A subsequent interior scene shows the Tower of Pisa outside the window. | |
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Oedipus in my Inventory uses the same establishing shot of Thebes in between every day. | |
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Tommy Wiseau's The Neighbors uses the exact same establishing shot — the outside of the apartment building while a synth riff plays — for every single scene transition. | |
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Stargate Atlantis uses an aerial shot of Atlantis as the establishing shot. | |
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Family Guy shows the outside of the house far too often, usually after any sort of passage of time. | |
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Burn Notice follows CSI's method of accompanying scene changes with random city shots. Except instead of casinos Burn Notice seems to prefer bikini clad women. | |
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Subverted on Frasier, where the exterior of Frasier's building was seen just once in 11 years. The establishing shots were replaced by witty title cards. Similarly, while Sacred Heart Hospital in Scrubs frequently has an establishing shot, the shot for the apartment building where the main characters live is only seen a few times in the very first episodes, and then very rarely afterward. |
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Friends established they were in one of the two principal apartments by showing an apartment building in Greenwich Village. | |
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Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon uses an establishing shot at the start of every mission in the campaign, showing the surrounding area before zooming in on the command ship. | |
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Scenes set on Centauri Prime in Babylon 5 always began with a SFX pan over the planet with several Centauri ships flying by. Other planets in the series had their own establishing shots — Earthdome for Earth, a beautiful crystal city for Minbar, and so on. And, of course, shots of the space station itself. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had one matte painting of a futuristic city which was used over and over again for establishing shots of alien planets. Similarly, Star Trek: The Original Series had several matte paintings that were recycled; the most notable of these was of a bronze-colored castle-like structure that frequently appeared in the closing credits. The original series also usually used a shot of the ship next to a globe that was supposed to be whatever planet it was visiting, even though India rotates through the shot. One reason the Federation doesn't use cloaking devices? It's impossible to do an establishing shot of a cloaked ship. |
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Parodied in Weebl & Bob, where an establishing shot of a building is accompanied by a ditty exclaiming "Establishing shot of the building!" And in another episode, the narrator sings "Chris' house!" over a shot of... well, what do you think? | |
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