Assignment No. 2 September 23‚ 2014 Case Study: Motion Picture Industry Course: ‐Statistics Professor: Homayoun Khamooshi‚ Ph. D. Team Members: Selena El Hajji Cristina Brain Vizcarra Mandatory Integrity Document for MSPM Team Projects Cristina Brain Vizcarra: “I am satisfied that the contribution made by each team member warrants a full share of the credit for this work‚ and I affirm that I have completed this assignment in accordance with the Code of Academic Integrity
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Big screen or small screen? Motion pictures captured the hearts of audiences from their birth and have won millions of devoted fans around the world. Even though later technological developments‚ such as the television‚ the video and more recently the DVD‚ made private viewing of motion pictures possible‚ the big screen has not lost its appeal. Based on my experiences‚ I prefer going to the cinema. There are several reasons for the movie theaters’ permanent popularity. First‚ even the most sophisticated
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creating a movie to release in such a competitive industry‚ assurance is needed that there will be a return on investment as well as that their movie will be well-received by the public and entertaining to make it a popular hit at the box office. Using a sample of 100 motion pictures from 2005 and numerical methods of descriptive statistics‚ including measures of location‚ variability‚ distribution shape and the detection of outliers‚ the motion picture industry can be analyzed more specifically in order
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history of motion pictures The purpose of this lecture: 1. to provide a brief overview of the development of motion pictures 2. with an emphasis on the economic culture that developed historically. 3. This has meant an emphasis on profits and 4. an avoidance of controversy. I. Early moving pictures Note the term used in the early days of the industry: Moving pictures. Pictures that movied. From the 1850s on‚ there had been experimentation by photographers and others in reproducing human motion. First
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A Changing Industry: Motion Picture Special Effects "Special visual effects have added to the allure of motion pictures since the early days of cinema. French director Georges Méliès is considered the most influential pioneer of special effects. His film "A Trip to the Moon" combined live action with animation‚ demonstrating to audiences that cinema could create worlds‚ objects‚ and events that did not exist in real life" (Tanis par. 1). Through examples of the new techniques and the movies where
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Visual – Dr Daniel Chandler MC10220 Matthew Ruckwood 03/05/2005 The Perception of Motion Pictures “Why‚ when we look at a succession of still images on the film screen‚ are we able to see a continuous moving image?” During the late 1970s and early 1980s a small group of film scholars radically broke away from the time-honoured explanation of how the human eye (and mind) perceived the apparent motion in cinema. They abandoned the notions of ‘persistence of vision’ and the Phi phenomenon
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mostly European countries and in Japan. When the war interrupted European filmmaking‚ however‚ the American film industry began to dominate the world market. In the years between 1917 and 1927 the silent film reached the peak of its development. United States had the largest film industry and American films dominated the international market. Germany and Japan still had some movie industries but mostly left to domestic. Many nations found film production as a matter of importance to national culture
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2006 2-D Motion Problems: Projectile Motion – Their Solutions 1. A place-kicker must kick a football from a point 36 m (about 40 yards) from the goal‚ and half the crowd hopes the ball will clear the crossbar‚ which is 3.1m high. When kicked the all leaves the ground with a speed of 20 m/s at an angle of 530 to the horizontal. 1. Does the ball clear or fall short of the crossbar? 2. Does the ball approach the crossbar while still rising or while falling? (a) From our equations of motion‚ the
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Stereotyping in Motion Pictures Even though movies and shows are mainly fictional and used for pure entertainment‚ these forms of media lead to discriminations such as Islamophobia because they vilify Arabs and Muslims portraying them as a violent and dangerous group. Muslim: A person that follows the religion of Islam Islam: a monotheistic faith that teaches that there is only one God and that Muhammad is His messenger. Arab: a person originally from a part of the Middle East Allah: Arabic translation
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eliminated and replaced with a more democratic‚ fair and open rating system. A rating system for film has been around for quite a while. Since 1926‚ the film industry has been rated in some manner. Back in 1926‚ much more was banned sexually and in terms of violence. “For almost 40 years the US film industry was governed by the Motion Picture Production Code‚ which banned nudity‚ drug use‚ religious ridicule‚ disrespect for the law and other depictions in film that would have the effect of lowering
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