An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects.

Today's filmmakers tend to skip the establishing shot in order to move the scene along more quickly.

In addition, scenes in mysteries and the like often wish to obscure the setting and its participants and thus avoid clarifying them with an establishing shot.

Establish a concept-An establishing shot may also establish a concept, rather than a location.

A shot of rain falling could be an establishing shot, followed by more and more detailed look at the rain, culminating with individual raindrops falling.

When a long shot is used to set up a location and its participants in film and video, it is called an establishing shot.

This can be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot.

It is often a long shot and can sometimes perform a double function as an establishing shot.

The establishing shot of the Hatayan city at dusk was created by filming silhouetted cutouts that were backlit and obscured by smoke.

The opening credits from Seasons 2 through 5 featured an opening shot of the cast in front of the house where establishing shots of the Seaver house are used, switching to photos of each cast member from childhood and, in Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns ' case, to adulthood, mixed with various episode clips.

The sets were designed to look like their real-life residence, often using an establishing shot of the actual house at 312 Maple Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

The footage for the opening had been shot back in 1968 for the series first pilot, thus the establishing shot of the Manhattan skyline was completely devoid of the World Trade Center towers which had not yet been built.

Bodiam Castle was used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in an establishing shot identifying it as " Swamp Castle " in the " Tale of Sir Lancelot " sequence.

As well as this, establishing shots and short film sequences were also shot at various medieval buildings in the UK including: Allington Castle in Suffolk, this was used to establish Fitzwalter Castle, Marian's home in the series, Painshill Park, near Cobham, Saltwood Castle in Hythe, Pencoed Castle near Magor in Monmouthshire.

The 1947 film Holiday Camp was filmed mainly on location at Butlins Filey, although the establishing shot was of Butlins Skegness.

" It was the first American film given permission to shoot in Moscow's Red Square-however, most of the scenes set in the USSR ( with the exceptions of the establishing shots under the main titles and the final lengthy shot in Red Square behind the end credits ) were actually shot in Hungary.

* The establishing shot of the Enterprise featured a side-view of the Milky Way Galaxy in the background.

The availability of the source weapons and the ability to use single ball, shot, or a mix of both as the situation required were reasons why they were initially desired by those establishing Confederate cavalry units.

The suppositions in the previous illustration might be sufficiently altered by establishing a connection between general company practice and local practice in the South, and by establishing such direct connection between the practice and the economic well-being of stores located in New York and general company policy.

Had it not been for such private enterprise, diocesan authorities might of course have been goaded into establishing institutions subsidized by diocesan funds and parish collections and staffed by religious as paid employees.

Bonaparte believed that by establishing a permanent presence in Egypt ( nominally part of the neutral Ottoman Empire ) the French would obtain a staging point for future operations against British India, possibly in conjunction with the anglophobic Tippoo Sultan of Seringapatam, that might successfully drive the British out of the war.

The treaty provided that the League of Nations was responsible for establishing an arbital court to resolve disputes that might arise and stipulated that its decisions were final.

Concerned that the " Milan commission " might threaten Caroline, he sent his brother James to Caroline's villa in the hope of establishing whether George had any grounds for divorce.

Fatimids paid attention to establishing libraries in their palaces so that the scholars might polish up their knowledge and get benefit of what their predecessors had done.

When after the death of Frederick Henry his son stadtholder William II of Orange tried to fulfill the monarchical aspirations his late father had always fostered by establishing a military dictatorship, the States of Holland made overtures to Cromwell, seeking his support against William, suggesting vaguely the province of Holland might join the Commonwealth.

It should be clearly understood however, that though nucleic acid evidence might be definitive for establishing relationships, it does not follow that morphological description is any the less important for day-to-day purposes of description or identification.

Whatever containment value the pact might have had was lost when the Soviets ' leap-frogged ' the member states, establishing close military and political relationships with governments in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.

* I can't help feeling that the security of the Fortress might be better served by having a stronger force in being outside it … I consequently feel that the answers to the possible threat ( of Japanese landing and establishing an advanced base on the mainland ) is primarily to be found in suitable mobile forces in being in the Malay Peninsula …-Dobbie's letter as GOC ( Malaya ), to the War Office on 17 March 1936.

In the Talmudic period the tendency against the original custom was intensified by apprehension that the brother-in-law might desire to marry his brother's widow for motives other than that of " establishing a name unto his brother.

This event had the effect of firmly establishing the authority of the Muromachi shogunate and suppressing the power of the regional age daimyo who might challenge that central authority.

The donation might have had the aim of establishing the Danish Archdiocese of Lund according to Sweyn II Estridsson's wishes, which was finally achieved in 1104.

His intentions then changed from forming a buffer colony to establishing an independent Republic of Sonora, which might eventually take its place as a part of the American Union ( as had been the case previously with the Republic of Texas ).

Each game begins by outlining the premise (" there are five people who might attend this afternoon's meeting ") and establishing a set of conditions governing the relationships among the subjects (" if Amy is present, then Bob is not present ; if Cathy is present, then Dan is present ...").

Charles I designated her Princess Royal in 1642, thus establishing the tradition that the eldest daughter of the British Sovereign might bear this title.

Citing Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Lenin clarifies theoretical questions about the existence of the State after the proletarian revolution, addressing the arguments of anti-authoritarians, anarchists, social democrats, and reformists, in describing the progressive stages of societal change — the revolution, establishing “ the lower stage of communist society ” ( the socialist commune ), and the “ higher stage of communist society ” that will yield a stable society where personal freedom might be fully expressed.

The issue of establishing minority groups, and determining the extent of privileges they might derive from their status, is the subject of some debate.

" He pointed out that investigations of the phenomenon need to control a large number of initial parameters ( including type and initial temperature of the water, dissolved gas and other impurities, and size, shape and material of the container, and temperature of the refrigerator ) and need to settle on a particular method of establishing the time of freezing, all of which might affect the presence or absence of the Mpemba effect.

They interpreted his policy of cutting all ties with the Yuan and establishing relations with Ming China as a direct threat to their status and feared that further attempts at reform might yet be made.

If linguistics is considered to be a “ discipline ” for establishing dialogue without manipulation, the performance of kirtana as an open text might be cited as an example of such dialogue.

In 2009, Lowitja O ' Donoghue expressed her opinion that reform of the agency would have been better than establishing a new agency which has been costly and might suffer similar problems as its predecessor, such as nepotism.

: Condescendingly I came as an existing Spirit unembodied, until condescendingly inputting MYSELF in a Bodily form in the likeness of men I came, that I might speak to them in their own language, coming to a country that is supposed to be the Country of the Free, where mankind is privileged to serve GOD according to the dictates of his own conscience ... establishing the Kingdom of GOD in the midst of them ; that they might become to be living epistles as individuals, seen and read of men, and verifying what has long been said: