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Camera moves & transitions, part 2 · #15
Establishing shot
A wide opening shot that shows the place. A wide, high view of the whole town; the camera pushes in slowly and a location caption appears at bottom left.
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Full motion specification
How the movement works
At the start of a scene to say where we are, or whenever the place or time changes.
- 01Camera: wide lens (focal length 220 px, shown as 16mm), height 4.5 m, pitch -0.06 rad; pushes in slowly from -5 m to -2.5 m
- 02Timing: 0.3 s to 4.2 s (3.9 s), cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1))
- 03Scene: eight city buildings 30 m away, a tower 16 m right and 36 m away, three clouds and mountains; a small person 1 m left, 12 m away gives the scale
- 04Location caption: from 0.9 s to 1.3 s a white card reading "EXT. CITY – DAY" (158×30 px, blue bar on its left) fades in at bottom left while moving up 8 px, then stays
- 05Return: cross-fade back to the start over the last 0.5 s (one pass = 4.7 s); top-right readout shows "16mm WIDE"
Prompt
Open with an establishing shot of the whole town, with the location name on screen.