Flyaway Shot

That trick when the camera slowly zooms out and gives an aerial view of the setting, as though it had taken off. Usually a Hat and Coat Shot, though there are exceptions.

Compare Astronomic Zoom.

Examples of Flyaway Shot include:

Comic Books

• The book version of Watchmen ends Chapter 1 exactly like this.

Film

• At the end of Shara, the camera zooms out, pans the rooftops, and then the image segues to a view of the city from a helicopter flying higher and higher.
• Eureka by Aoyama Shinji.
• At the end of Live Free or Die Hard, with Creedence's "Fortunate Son" reprising itself in the background.
• Dirty Harry movies end like this.
• The end of The Teaser in the first Harry Potter movie zooms out to show a huge number of completely identical houses, reinforcing the mundanity of the Muggle world.
• Forrest Gump has this as bookend shots, following a What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic feather.
• Last Chance Harvey ends with a typical Flyaway Shot of the happy couple walking away as the camera rises.
• Field of Dreams has this at the end. It starts out with a shot of Ray and his dad playing catch, and zooms away to reveal that a long line of cars is driving towards the field to visit.
• Inverted with Recess: School's Out, right after the prolouge, we cut to an arial view of the town the show takes place in (no name), and goes down while the movie title shows up, ending at the school. Conspicious CG included.
  • This is played straight at the end of the movie as well, after the kids leave the school, the camera goes up to the sky before the cut to black and the Disney Acid Sequence credits, in a Book Ends way. Again with the Conspicious CG.
• Gangs of New York does this at the end of the fight scene at the beginning, showing all of 1840's New York.

Live-Action TV

• This was the end credits sequence for The Big Breakfast, in itself the Title Sequence (a short-range Astronomic Zoom) played in reverse.
  • Another reversed zoom can be seen at the end of Time Bandits, while the camera's zooming out on Kevin. The remains of Kevin's parents billow smoke backwards.

Music Videos

• Done for real using a drone-mounted camera in OK Go's video for their 2014 song "I Won't Let You Down". By the end of the song the camera is some 700 meters up, and pans around to show the Japanese countryside surrounding the shopping center in which the video is set.