A scene starts with an establishing shot of a National Trust property.
He was of course referring to what is known as "the master shot," an establishing shot in film.
Let's pick through it for a closer look … The trailer begins with an establishing shot, establishing that the film is set in the middle of nowhere.
Perhaps you could include an establishing shot, some portraits, an action shot and a detail or two – make the folio as varied as possible.
"I read a script recently where someone said that we had to shoot an establishing shot in Florida," said Mr. Carpenter, who lives in Shirley.
Then he swept by, and a foreign film crew shoved Mrs. Trigère aside to get an establishing shot of the tent.
Most of their conversations take place in Nora's Mediterranean-style house, of which there is an establishing shot seemingly every six minutes.
The show's first season opened, in 2011, with an establishing shot of an agitated Carrie Mathison beseeching her controllers to protect her source while impatiently negotiating Baghdad traffic.
And at first it seems one's worst fears are to be realised, with an opening paragraph that unfolds like an instruction for an establishing shot in an action film: "Lake Como.
In the opening episode of the new season of "N.Y.P.D. Blue," to be broadcast Nov. 6, the camera lingers in an establishing shot on a view of Lower Manhattan at night, sans the twin towers.
By that, I think he meant that it was poisonous to the established order of working, which was to use a Leica, shoot in black and white, and always have an establishing shot".
