Case Study Outline: Ghost in the Shell

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.