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typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png/220px-LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png/330px-LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png/440px-LOC_Brooklyn_Bridge_and_East_River_7.png 2x" data-file-width="2179" data-file-height="1713" /></a><figcaption>An opening shot of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge" title="Brooklyn Bridge">Brooklyn Bridge</a> establishes the setting and trajectory of the film <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever" title="Saturday Night Fever">Saturday Night Fever</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>establishing shot</b> in <a href="/wiki/Filmmaking" title="Filmmaking">filmmaking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Television_production" class="mw-redirect" title="Television production">television production</a> sets up, or establishes, the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_Page_18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown_Page_18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is generally a long or <a href="/wiki/Long_shot" class="mw-redirect" title="Long shot">extreme-long shot</a> at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.<sup 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Today's filmmakers tend to skip the establishing shot in order to move the scene along more quickly, or merely mention the setting in on-screen text (as is done in the <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order_(franchise)" title="Law & Order (franchise)"><i>Law & Order</i> franchise</a>). 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For example, an exterior shot of a building at night followed by an interior shot of people talking implies that the conversation is taking place at night inside that building – the conversation may in fact have been filmed on a studio set far from the apparent location, because of budget, permits, time limitations or convenience. In the series <i><a href="/wiki/JAG_(TV_series)" title="JAG (TV series)">JAG</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/24-hour_clock" title="24-hour clock">24-hour</a> <a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">Coordinated Universal Time</a> was used for these scenes to reinforce the military setting of the series.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Relationship</dt> <dd>An establishing shot might be a long shot of a room that shows all the characters from a particular scene. For example, a scene about a murder in a college lecture hall might begin with a shot that shows the entire room, including the lecturing professor and the students taking notes. A close-up shot can also be used at the beginning of a scene to establish the setting (such as, for the lecture hall scene, a shot of a pencil writing notes).</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Concept</dt> <dd>An establishing shot may also establish a concept, rather than a location. For example, opening with a martial arts drill visually establishes the theme of martial arts. 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