How William Shatner Changed the World

The docudrama How William Shatner Changed the World is closely the global effect that the original series of brainiac Trek had on applied science throughout the world. The documentary talks about the technology that shortly existed when Star Trek 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 variation in the worlds technology and inspired galore(postnominal) to make technology corresponding to the ones on Star Trek.Many film techniques are apply in this documentary not only to make the documentary fire, but humourous as well. Some of these film techniques include various camera shots, archival footage and montages to severalize a few. In the beginning of the documentary, William Shatner is talking and is driving his political machine and whilst he is driving it there are many jump shots between his car and segments of Star Trek. The effect of this gives you insight of what the documentary is mainly about.In this documentary many inventors make an appearance 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 booth phone the shots used when all of them are talking are mediocre shots that enthrall their face and upper torso. This gives off the feeling that the people olfaction close and also so that the camera men can capture them using arm gestures. The use of archival footage is used a skunk throughout this documentary showing mainly clips of Star Trek relating to the outlet that William Shatner is narrating about.This makes it easy to show what the futuristic technology Star Trek had at the metre so we can see and compare it to todays modern technology that we acknowledge for granted. One of the more interesting film techniques that was used in the documentary was a segue which was used when William Shatner walked up t o a giant rock, so an edit was used to show archival footage of him as an younger sham 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 base being the rock used in two scenes to link each(prenominal) 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. edit is also used throughout the documentary a lot for pillow slip when William Shatner was narrating and the camera was upon him, jump cuts are used switching to different shots of him worry close ups, long 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 sagely and with nifty timing, not to mention the documentary has a very good context that appeals to many viewers because of its witty humour.