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| rdfs:comment | - An Establishing Shot that includes a wild planet-scale or even galaxy-scale zoom -- for example, showing Earth from space and then zooming in through the atmosphere to a single room/street, or zooming through galaxies to Earth. Often used to convey a message like this: "The universe is big, and on this Insignificant Little Blue Planet, there is a totally unremarkable spot where..." Steven Johnson called this "The Long Zoom" in a pre-release article on Spore, referring to it as the "defining view" of our era. Subtrope of Epic Tracking Shot. Examples:
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| dbkwik:all-the-tropes/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
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| abstract | - An Establishing Shot that includes a wild planet-scale or even galaxy-scale zoom -- for example, showing Earth from space and then zooming in through the atmosphere to a single room/street, or zooming through galaxies to Earth. Often used to convey a message like this: "The universe is big, and on this Insignificant Little Blue Planet, there is a totally unremarkable spot where..." Steven Johnson called this "The Long Zoom" in a pre-release article on Spore, referring to it as the "defining view" of our era. It is extremely common in documentaries about space, often zooming from the scale of entire galaxies being pixels big, until reach the scale of measly people. Subtrope of Epic Tracking Shot. Examples:
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