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: