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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:
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[[folder: Film - Live-Action]]
%%* The Miramax Films VanityPlate from 1998 to 2008.
%%* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''
%%* ''Film/U2RattleAndHum'' (the documentary)
%%* ''Film/JurassicPark'' Actually a SignatureShot for the franchise—- most of the films feature similar dramatic introductions to the islands.
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' opens with a camera flight over costal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
%%* ''Film/TheBirdcage''
%%* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife''
%%* ''Film/OceansEleven'', after the introductory scene.
%%* ''[[Film/TwentyOne 21]]''
%%* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' uses one of these shots (traveling over water, looking up to see land) twice in the opening credits.
%%* ''Film/TheLostBoys''
%%* ''Film/BrandNewWorld'', on the pseudo-helicopter.
%%* ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''
%%* The closing shot of ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.
%%* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
%%* ''Film/FarAndAway''
%%* One or more of them ''Film/SharkAttack'' movies.
%%* The DVD menu for Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
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%%[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]
%%* StockFootage on ''Series/CSIMiami''.
%%* Used to introduce the skyline of Caprica City in the re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.
%%* As well as Atlantis in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''
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[[folder: Video Games ]]
%%* The opening of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Undercover'', which is a parody of Hollywood action movies.
* The intro movie of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' 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 ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' it's ''almost'' the opening shot of the entire game... as seen in [[PortalPicture a book]].
%%* The opening of ''VideoGame/FrontMissionEvolved''.
* The opening of ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance 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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%%[[folder: Western Animation ]]
%%* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
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!Wicks
!!{{Spectacle}}
!!VanityPlate
!!Film.{{Braveheart}}
* DramaticLandfallShot: The opening sequence starts with a camera flight over coastal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
!!Film.JurassicPark
* DramaticLandfallShot: The helicopter's arrival at Isla Nublar.
!!Film.LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife
!!Film.QuantumOfSolace
!!Film.SnakesOnAPlane
* DramaticLandfallShot: The opening of the film has one for Hawaii.
!!Film.SpiderManNoWayHome
* DramaticLandfallShot: The camera shot when it's revealed that they are moving into Happy's apartment.
!!Film.TheLostBoys
* DramaticLandfallShot: There's one after Michael is initiated into David's gang after drinking his blood.
!!Film.UndercoverBrother
* DramaticLandfallShot: when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
!!Film.X2XMenUnited
* DramaticLandfallShot: The closing shot.
!!Funny.JoueurDuGrenier
*** Fred tries to get a majestic DramaticLandfallShot with his helicopter only to plunge it underwater.
!!ImageSource.{{Batman}}
!!Recap.BattlestarGalactica2003S00E01MiniseriesPart1
* DramaticLandfallShot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline. Later used at the beginning of each episode's credit sequence.
!!Series.BattlestarGalactica2003
* DramaticLandfallShot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline.
!!Series.CSIMiami
!!VideoGame.{{Myst}}
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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.NeedForSpeedUndercover
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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.TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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
!!WesternAnimation.BatmanBeyond
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[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/batman_beyond_intro_gotham_city_640x480.png]]]]
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.
----
!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder: Film - Live-Action]]
%%* The Miramax Films VanityPlate from 1998 to 2008.
%%* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''
%%* ''Film/U2RattleAndHum'' (the documentary)
%%* ''Film/JurassicPark'' Actually a SignatureShot for the franchise—- most of the films feature similar dramatic introductions to the islands.
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' opens with a camera flight over costal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
%%* ''Film/TheBirdcage''
%%* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife''
%%* ''Film/OceansEleven'', after the introductory scene.
%%* ''[[Film/TwentyOne 21]]''
%%* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' uses one of these shots (traveling over water, looking up to see land) twice in the opening credits.
%%* ''Film/TheLostBoys''
%%* ''Film/BrandNewWorld'', on the pseudo-helicopter.
%%* ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''
%%* The closing shot of ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.
%%* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
%%* ''Film/FarAndAway''
%%* One or more of them ''Film/SharkAttack'' movies.
%%* The DVD menu for Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
[[/folder]]
%%[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]
%%* StockFootage on ''Series/CSIMiami''.
%%* Used to introduce the skyline of Caprica City in the re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.
%%* As well as Atlantis in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''
%%[[/folder]]
[[folder: Video Games ]]
%%* The opening of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Undercover'', which is a parody of Hollywood action movies.
* The intro movie of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' 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 ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' it's ''almost'' the opening shot of the entire game... as seen in [[PortalPicture a book]].
%%* The opening of ''VideoGame/FrontMissionEvolved''.
* The opening of ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance 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.
[[/folder]]
%%[[folder: Western Animation ]]
%%* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
%%[[/folder]]
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!Wicks
!!{{Spectacle}}
!!VanityPlate
!!Film.{{Braveheart}}
* DramaticLandfallShot: The opening sequence starts with a camera flight over coastal water after which the rough Scottish mountain landscape comes into view.
!!Film.JurassicPark
* DramaticLandfallShot: The helicopter's arrival at Isla Nublar.
!!Film.LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife
!!Film.QuantumOfSolace
!!Film.SnakesOnAPlane
* DramaticLandfallShot: The opening of the film has one for Hawaii.
!!Film.SpiderManNoWayHome
* DramaticLandfallShot: The camera shot when it's revealed that they are moving into Happy's apartment.
!!Film.TheLostBoys
* DramaticLandfallShot: There's one after Michael is initiated into David's gang after drinking his blood.
!!Film.UndercoverBrother
* DramaticLandfallShot: when we see The Man's island fortress for the first time.
!!Film.X2XMenUnited
* DramaticLandfallShot: The closing shot.
!!Funny.JoueurDuGrenier
*** Fred tries to get a majestic DramaticLandfallShot with his helicopter only to plunge it underwater.
!!ImageSource.{{Batman}}
!!Recap.BattlestarGalactica2003S00E01MiniseriesPart1
* DramaticLandfallShot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline. Later used at the beginning of each episode's credit sequence.
!!Series.BattlestarGalactica2003
* DramaticLandfallShot: Used to introduce the Caprica City skyline.
!!Series.CSIMiami
!!VideoGame.{{Myst}}
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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.NeedForSpeedUndercover
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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.TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland
* DramaticLandfallShot: 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
!!WesternAnimation.BatmanBeyond
