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Meaning of establishing shot | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene used to inform the audience of the location or situation.

Equivalents

Suomi avauskuva

Examples

“Using mostly fixed camera positions, he will intersperse scenes with establishing shots of the clanking, pitiless machinery of the ski lift⟳, rattling rhythmically as bits of cable and metal thunk into each other.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

establishment establishment clause establishment growth establishment of the port establishment Republican establishmentarian

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