Kyle Stanclift
Visual Effects Case Study
Ghost in the Shell
Case Study Outline
I. Introduction: Intro to: Ghost in the Shell
- A. Setting for Ghost in the Shell, brief discussion of technologies.
- B. Discuss briefly of the advancement of the human race in the movie.
- 1. How people have evolved.
- 2. How everything interconnects
- 3. How visual effects were used to show this advancement.
Ghost in the Shell is a believable look into the possible future of humanity.
II. Body
- A. Philosophy involved in the movie.
- 1. Cyber brains/Their function. Ethics involved with prosthetic upgrades.
- 2. Machines integrated with human beings/Idea of the “Ghost”
- 3. Relation to life/How it applys
- B. Artificial Intelligence/Advanced Robotics
- 1. Androids and advanced prosthetics
- 2. A.I. Integration(i.e Military robots and everyday life)
- 3. Hacking/Diving into a person’s subconcious.
- C. The Movie/Ideas
- 1. Discuss the end of the movie/How it applies to previous
- 2. The ideas behind the ending/ making of “human”
- 3. How the movie used Vis Effects to show the future of Ghost in the Shell
III. Conclusion
- A. Discuss how they tie together/Give examples of advancements in real life.
- B. Discuss how Ghost in the Shell’s world could very well become our own.
