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The opening shot that takes the form of a forward travelling on the sea, with the camera slowly rising to give a view of the shore.

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Examples:

Film

• The Miramax Films Vanity Plate.
• The Day After Tomorrow
• U 2 Rattle And Hum (the documentary)
• Jurassic Park
• The Birdcage
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
• Ocean's Eleven, after the introductory scene.
• 21
• Snakes on a Plane
• The Lost Boys
• Brand New World, on the pseudo-helicopter.
• Quantum of Solace
• The closing shot of X2.
• Undercover Brother, when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
• Far And Away
• One or more of them Shark Attack movies.
• The DVD menu for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Live-Action TV

• Stock Footage on CSI: Miami.
• Used to introduce the skyline of Caprica City in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.

Video Games

• The opening of Need for Speed: Undercover, which is a parody of Hollywood action movies.
• The intro movie of The Curse Of Monkey Island plays with this: The camera zooms towards the titular Monkey Island... then swerves to zoom in on a drifting bumper car with our hero.
• In Myst it's almost the opening shot of the entire game... as seen in a book.
• The opening of Front Mission Evolved.

Western Animatnion

• Batman Beyond

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