take a shot at someone or something, electioneering, establishing shot

"We had big rows because on other films I'd been used to telling the director where to do his establishing shot from. But Stanley said the hell with you I'm not putting my camera there - and you'll thank me in the end."

Obama Takes a Shot at Chamber of Commerce
At a rally for Pennsylvania Senate candidate Joe Sestak, the President speculated that the Chamber of Commerce could be using foreign or corporate contributions to fund its electioneering.

定場鏡頭（英語：establishing shot）是影片一開始，或一場戲的開頭，用來明確交代地點的鏡頭，通常是一種視野寬闊的遠景。有時候，定場鏡頭與涵蓋鏡頭相同，目的在確立場景中所有人物與空間的關係。

An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects.^[1] It is generally a long- or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.^[2][3][4][5]

Establishing shots were more common during the classical era of filmmaking than they are now. Today's filmmakers tend to skip the establishing shot in order to move the scene along more quickly. In addition, the expositional nature of the shot (as described above) may be unsuitable to scenes in mysteries, where details are intentionally obscured or left out.

take a shot at someone or something

1. to fire a shot at someone or something. The hunter took a shot at the deer. Who took a shot at my mailbox?

2. Go to a try at something.