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[[File:Arrietty establishing shot.jpg|frame|link=The Borrower Arrietty|Ah, so the story takes place in a secluded mansion covered in vines! But what role could that cat over there play...]]
{{quote|''"Man, they're establishing the hell out of this building, here!"''|'''Tom Servo''', on an overly long
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]]''
Science fiction shows often use [[Standardized Space Views|shots of the spacecraft or planet involved]].
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Scenes set on Centauri Prime in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' always began with a SFX pan over the planet with several Centauri ships flying by. Similarly other planets in the series had their own establishing
* ''[[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.
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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 one [[Halloween Episode]] in which the house was represented by a model (which exploded).
* ''[[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 minutes.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' never used to bother with this, but it has only recently 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
* 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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* The [[Cold Open]] of almost every episode of ''[[Modern Family]]'' starts with an establishing shot of one of the three families' houses. They are used to transition during the episodes as well.
* [[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.
* [[Friends]] established they were in one of the two principal apartments by showing [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514015321/http://gonyc.about.com/od/photogalleries/ss/tv-movie-location-photos_3.htm an apartment building from Greenwich Village].
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' did some when the party was split.
* Xawu did this for it's second [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107064652/http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/comics/25 chapter cover.]
* [[El Goonish Shive]] did this to introduce [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-17 the furniture store Swedekea] as a setting.
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