Shattered Glass, composed by Billy Ray is a visual text, which clearly demonstrates numerous examples of ambition. Ray demonstrates examples of ambition through the use of one main film technique, close-up camera shots. These examples of ambition can be seen easily in one of the main characters; Stephen Glass.

Stephen Glass was a journalist that wrote for `The New Republic', a respected current events and policy magazine. His ambition in life was to be a well known journalist, and to earn a six digit salary. This ambition, made him mislead people, and allow them to believe the articles that he fabricated were actually factual.

An example of Stephen Glass misleading people is when he entirely fabricated an article about a Hackers Institution known as Jukt Micronics. In this article, Glass invents people, conference meetings, and entire buildings. He lies about this because he has such strong ambitions of...