Establishing Shots

Establishing Shot
The establishing shot lets the viewers know where they are as the story moves from location to location in a film.
The establishing shot can be a mixture of shot sizes, so it is technically not a shot type. It tells the viewer where in the world the story takes place. It can be an extreme wide sweeping shot with a crane or a drone to show a particular time period or details of a location. It can also use tighter shots that show pieces of a location
Films included in the video: Blade Runner, Coco, Parasite, The Godfather, The Shinning, The Lion King, The Shawshank Redemption, James Bond: Skyfall, Lord Of The Rings Fellowship Of Ring, Tron Legacy, Tangled, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Psycho, Forest Gump, The Dark Knight, Knives Out and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone