How William Shatner Changed the World

The nonsubjective How William Shatner Changed the World is about the global payoff that the original series of lead story travel had on engine room throughout the world. The documentary film talks about the technology that originally existed when Star travel originally came out in 1966 and its comparison to the futuristic technology that was onboard the Star Trek ship the Enterprise. This futuristic technology onboard the enterprise sparked a revolution in the worlds technology and elysian many another(prenominal) to make technology similar to the ones on Star Trek.Many carry techniques are apply in this documentary not unless to make the documentary interesting, but humourous as well. Some of these film techniques include various camera shots, archival footage and montages to name a few. In the beginning of the documentary, William Shatner is talking and is driving his car and whilst he is driving it in that respect are many outset shots between his car and segments o f Star Trek. The achievement of this gives you insight of what the documentary is mainly about.In this documentary many inventors make an visual aspect in the documentary and talk about how Star Trek inspired them to invent their technology e. g. Martin Cooper who was the inventor of the cell phone the shots utilise when all of them are talking are medium shots that capture their confront and upper torso. This gives off the feeling that the people look close and likewise so that the camera men sens capture them using fort gestures. The use of archival footage is utilize a lot throughout this documentary testifying mainly clips of Star Trek relating to the topic that William Shatner is narrating about.This makes it easy to show what the futuristic technology Star Trek had at the time so we can see and compare it to todays modern technology that we take for granted. One of the much interesting film techniques that was used in the documentary was a proceed which was used whe n William Shatner walked up to a giant leaning, then an edit was used to show archival footage of him as an younger actor in a Star Trek episode fighting an alien, and as an alien throws the rock, the current William Shatner comes back into view and catches the rock.This use of one motif being the rock used in two scenes to link each other is a slightly humourous segue. Other film techniques used in this documentary are camera angles where William Shatner deliberately moves the camera up and down making him look slightly different from both angles. Editing is also used throughout the documentary a lot for face when William Shatner was narrating and the camera was upon him, jump cuts are used switching to different shots of him like close ups, coarse shots and crane shots.This editing makes William Shatners narration more interesting and funny. How William Shatner Changed the World is an example of a great documentary that uses its film techniques wisely and with good timing, not to mention the documentary has a very good context that appeals to many viewers because of its witty humour.