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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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Film - Live-Action
- Braveheart opens with a camera flight over costal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
Video Games
- 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 Sonic Advance 2 turns this into a fun landfall shot that whips up to the sky to reveal the logo. The landfall itself is towards a roller coaster that isn't featured anywhere else in the game.
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Vanity Plate
Film.Braveheart
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The opening sequence starts with a camera flight over coastal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
Film.Jurassic Park
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The helicopter's arrival at Isla Nublar.
Film.Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle Of Life
Film.Quantum Of Solace
Film.Snakes On A Plane
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The opening of the film has one for Hawaii.
Film.Spider Man No Way Home
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The camera shot when it's revealed that they are moving into Happy's apartment.
Film.The Lost Boys
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: There's one after Michael is initiated into David's gang after drinking his blood.
Film.Undercover Brother
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
Film.X 2 X Men United
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The closing shot.
Funny.Joueur Du Grenier
- Fred tries to get a majestic Dramatic Landfall Shot with his helicopter only to plunge it underwater.
ImageSource.Batman
Recap.Battlestar Galactica 2003 S 00 E 01 Miniseries Part 1
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline. Later used at the beginning of each episode's credit sequence.
Series.Battlestar Galactica 2003
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline.
Series.CSI Miami
VideoGame.Myst
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The opening shot of the first game is an early example. Also Mechanical, Stoneship, J'nanin, Edanna, Haven, Teledahn... A good number of the Ages are islands, so they get to use this a lot. Justified by the fact that an age's descriptive book is already an enormous volume of several thousand pages, so describing an entire planet's features would make a book far too large to handle.
VideoGame.Need For Speed Undercover
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: The opening shot of the game takes the form of a forward traveling on the bay of Tri-City Bay, with the camera slowly rising to give a view of the city.
VideoGame.The Curse Of Monkey Island
- Dramatic Landfall Shot: Played with in the intro movie, where Guybrush is too absorbed in his journaling to notice he's floated into sight of Plunder Island and the middle of an ongoing ship battle
