...Solutions to Case Problems Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations Case Problem 1: Pelican Stores 1. There were 70 Promotional customers and 30 Regular customers. Because there are 100 observations in the sample, the frequency and percent frequency distribution are the same. Percent frequency distributions for many of the variables are given. No. of Items | Percent Frequency | 1 | 29 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 or more | 8 | Total: | 100 | Net Sales | Percent Frequency | 0.00 - 24.99 | 9 | 25.00 - 49.99 | 30 | 50.00 - 74.99 | 25 | 75.00 - 99.99 | 10 | 100.00 - 124.99 | 12 | 125...
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...REPORT Case Study: Motion Picture Industry Assignment 1 Prepared By: Table of Contents Introduction 3 Executive Summary 3 Data and General Analysis 4 CONCLUSIONS 12 Integrity Statement 13 Works Cited 13 Executive Summary In this report we will show, via descriptive statistics, how independent variables appear to contribute to the success of motion pictures. Using data collected from a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005, we utilize the following variables: Opening Weekend Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Total Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Number of Theaters, and; Weeks in Top 60, to graphically depict their contribution to that success. We will also display the data in both tabular and graphical methods to allow management to make inferences about the data and ultimately enable decision making with reference to the data set. There are more variables and parameters available to determine each depicted variable’s contribution to the success (or lack of success) of the motion picture, but this report only analyzed, interprets and presents with reference to the four variables mentioned. Major highlights include: * 70% of the motion pictures in the sample had Opening Weekend Gross Sales of less than $10 million. * 73% of the motion pictures in the sample had Total Gross Sales of less than $40 million. * 45% of the motion pictures in the sample were shown in 250 or less theaters. * 65% of the motion pictures...
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...Case study Topic: Disney’s FROZEN as a global pop culture phenomenon FROZEN has been a global sensation with great reception by audiences around the world with its original song “Let It Go”. Let It Go was translated into many languages which captivated people around the globe of all ages . This move by Disney can be seen as a form of “media globalization” via the means of YouTube and theatrical releases on Television in different countries with different cultures and languages. The reception of the film can be seen as a “cultural process” or Cultural globalization which is the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe . Academic Sources 1) Mollet, T. 2013. “With a smile and a song …”: Walt Disney and the birth of the American fairy tale.” Marvels & Tales 27 (1): 109-24. In this journal article, Mollet reviews on how Walt Disney’s production is now being seen as crucial to the construction of the modern American society through his contribution to the formation of a new United States nationalism . The author approaches the topic using cultural studies and textual analysis ofn Disney fairy tales to exemplify how they reflect the dominant (?) culture of America. Her research focuses on analysing Disney films such as “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs”, “Three Little Pigs”, “Wizard of Oz” and how these films and their characters portray the unstable society and culture of America during the great depression and other different time periodslines. The...
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...[pic] CASE STUDY [pic] NAME : TANMAY MEHTA COURSE : MBA TECH BRANCH : TELECOM ROLL NO : 527 PREFACE The acronym MPEG stands for Moving Picture Expert Group, which worked to generate the specifications under ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission. What is commonly referred to as "MPEG video" actually consists at the present time of two finalized standards, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, with a third standard, MPEG-4, in the process of being finalized . The MPEG-1 & -2 standards are similar in basic concepts. They both are based on motion compensated block-based transform coding techniques, while MPEG-4 deviates from these more traditional approaches in its usage of software image construct descriptors, for target bit-rates in the very low range, < 64Kb/sec. Because MPEG-1 & -2 are finalized standards and are both presently being utilized in a large number of applications, this case study concentrates on compression techniques relating only to these two standards. MPEG 3- it was originally anticipated that this standard would refer to HDTV applications, but it was found that minor extensions to the MPEG-2 standard would suffice for this higher bit-rate, higher resolution application, so work on a separate MPEG-3 standard was abandoned. CONTENTS *Introduction *History *Video Compression *Video Quality *MPEG *MPEG Standards ...
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...Quantitative Business Analysis The following is the descriptive statistics for the Motion Picture Industry Case study. The data set provided was used to calculate the median, mean and mode for the gross opening weekend. On the first graph you can see that for the opening gross the graph is skewed to the right so the median is the best central tendency measure rather than using the mean. The median opening gross was 0.39, which means 50% of the opening gross values were less than 0.39 and 50% were above 0.39. The opening gross was 3.43, which indicates a right tail. The kurtosis of the opening gross was 13.81, which indicates a leptokurtic distribution. This skew can be seen on the first histogram. The graphs are attached on the excel file as well. The opening gross range was 108.43, from 0.01 to 108.44. The standard deviation of opening gross was 18.87. The Interquartile Range, which calculates the range for the middle 50% of the values, is used to measure the variability. The Interquartile Range for the opening gross was 12.37. The opening gross outliers were calculated on the box-plot and the extreme values were 108.44 which was Star Wars Episode 2, 102.69 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 77.06 war of the Worlds, 50.34 Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 48.75 Batman Begins, and 33.90 Wedding Crashers, The values are less than z-score of -3 or larger than z-score of +3 which is why they are considered outliers. War of the Worlds at 77.06, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
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...FUNdaMENTALS of Design Alexander H. Slocum Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA slocum@mit.edu ™ FUNdaMENTALS of Design Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering This book was made possible by a generous gift from Neil and Jane Pappalardo Support for this book was also provided by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and iCampus the Microsoft-MIT Alliance ©2007 Alexander H. Slocum ABOUT This Book A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his. "You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..." Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"1 This book is about helping people to learn how to create their own future! It does this by taking advantage of the fact that the reader’s LEFT brain sees the LEFT side (FUN) of the book. The RIGHT brain sees the (MENTAL) side of the book. Its simply FUNdaMENTAL! This in itself is a key feature of this book: It seeks to train the brain to think by many a link. Creating things is NOT done by following a monotonous recipe... The ability to create can be learned by anyone who has a yearn to learn! But the eye must be quick to sort and pick! Embedded inside, many...
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...savagery from hitting a child on the play area, to challenges in Ohio, to emptying a round on honest regular people. It would be difficult to constrain the savagery that exists in our lives since we see it all over we go, demonstrating that “TV” isn't the main medium for roughness. Sex is a subject that each individual countenances throughout their life eventually. Whether it is examined in school, at home, or with companions, we encounter it. On the planet today, it is difficult to go anyplace without seeing these pictures of brutality or sex since it is all over. In spite of the fact that, that can really be something to be thankful for. The data kids gain from topics like sex can originate from “TV” programs, which can really help them in life. There are such demonstrates that include examining sex so as to educate about safe sex, the outcomes from dangerous sex, self-regard, and simply fundamental information on the most proficient method to settle on great decision. One study observed that Seventy five percent of “Americans” feel that TV had "an excess of sexually express material." Moreover, eighty-six percent trusted that TV had added to "a decrease in value. Station surfing through the TV uncovers plot celebrating “premarital” sex, infidelity, and even...
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...Film Analysis: The Corporation University/Institution Name: Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Course Name: Date Submitted: Film Analysis: The Corporation Introduction The Corporation, an infotainment by moviemakers Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar and authored by Joel Bakan, explores the legal standard, basically inquiring: if corporations were people, what manner of people would they be? Making use of psychiatrical main beliefs and FBI forensic technics, and through several case studies, the motion picture ascertains that this “being”, the corporation, which has an ever-increasing power over the daily existence of almost all living creatures on earth, would be a sociopath. The case studies consist of a story concerning how two reporters were sacked from Fox News for declining to downplay a story about the risks of a product of Monsanto given to dairy cattle, and another regarding Bolivian employees who confederated to guard their rights on their own water provision. The commonness of corporate control over our lives is looked into by analyzing efforts to manipulate behavior, together with that of children. The key argument of the infotainment is that, as the corporate legal “body” under current law is regarded to be a person, founded on its characteristics and personality, is a sociopath. Bakan establishes this standpoint on several things but letting the Psychologist tackle the question while the expert deals with psychosis. The major problems of a corporation discussed...
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...Vračević Željka University of Banjaluka Faculty of Philology English Language and Literature REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININITY IN DISNEY CARTOON PRODUCTION: An Analysis of Selected Examples The purpose of this essay is to explore how media, especially Disney cartoons, affect gender, particularly young girls and how the representations of females within the media affect the viewers through stereotypes or ideals to live up too. THE INTRODUCTION (the explanation of media influences and basic notions of women representations in Disney Production) A good deal of feminist writing in the field of culture has been concerned with the representations of gender and of women in particular, and it is claimed that these representations of females reflected male attitudes and constituted misrepresentations of “real women”. Meehan (1983) analyzed the stereotypes into which women are commonly cast on television and the analysis showed that “good women” are, or are expected to be submissive, domesticated and home-centered while “bad women” are rebellious and independent. She concludes that “American viewers have spent more than three decades watching male heroes and their adventures, muddied visions of boyhood adolescence repete with illusions of women as witches, bitches, mothers and imps “. All researches about the media influence give the same conclusion that the mass media is a powerful resource through which viewers develop their...
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...THE CINEMATIC REVOLUTION: AN ANALYSIS ON THE BOX OFFICE HIT FILM “HENERAL LUNA” AS PERCEIVED BY SELECTED: FILM EXPERTS, MARKETING EXPERTS, HISTORIANS AND MASS COMMUNICATION STUDENTS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Letters Bulacan State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication Major in Broadcasting by Adolfo, Jasmine Faye M. Añonuevo, Sabbyna R. Cara, Angelica P. Paguiligan, Noemi D. BAMC 4B Mr. Regemrei P. Bernardo MARCH 2016 Chapter I The Problem and Its Setting INTRODUCTION A film is a characterization of diverse emotions and motions of a society (Santillan, 1998, 155, as cited in Campomanes, 2015). As disciplines and fields of knowledge, History and Film differ from their own characteristics and potencies however as in the teaching of history, there are times when their relationship is evident. According to CCP (1994) historical films are “films based on biographies and events in the distant past.” Following this definition, it has been said that there are two kinds of historical films, one that uses history only as a context and the latter that attempts to directly represent a historical period, place or personality. (Navarro 2008, 134 as cited in Campomanes, 2015) The amount of information we gain from a book can hardly be equaled to the ones we gain in a film for the reason that a film is limited with its running time. Although with...
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...Lisa Cooper CSU-Global Campus Quantitative Business Analysis MTH410 Mod 2 Critical Thinking Dr. Barry Smith 7/20/2011 The quantitative analysis of the Motion Picture Industry provided by the textbook with the data set reveals many key aspects of the industry. Utilizing the descriptive statistics for each of the four variables in the data set can include mean, mode, median, z-score, standard deviation, dispersion, and correlation coefficient. Outliers are defined as a data set that has unusually large or unusually small values will also be determined using the same statistics (Anderson, et al., 2011). An evaluation of these descriptive statistics and the relationship between the total gross sales will be the focus of this critical thinking exercise. Good introduction. The first data set includes opening day gross revenues. The median opening day gross was .39 which means that half of the movies in this data set were less than .39 and the rest were more than .39. The median is the middle of an ordered score of an odd number of data or half way between the even two numbers. The mean was 9.38 and the standard deviation was 18.875 based on 100 movies (Expert, 2011). Simple mean is calculated with the follow formula: x=Ex1/n.The opening day variance is .03 to 108.44 ($ millions) equaling 108.43. Therefore with a median of .39 and a mean of 9.38 indicates that there are many movies on opening day that are not making money and a few are making much money...
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...Andrea Moore PSYC 320-001 January 19, 2012 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Scientific Management Studies The Gilbreths studies were great contributions to not only scientific management, but to the modern world we live in today. They were innovative, and efficient in all aspects of life. Their values and ideals were influences by their unique and fulfilled lives, enriched with the responsibility of caring for twelve children. Certainly, Frank and Lillian had a lot on their hands, so they had to always find the best way to function as a very large family. Therefore, the Gilbreths instilled their main goal, to search for the one best way to organize and execute, into studies of work flows and processes. Their ultimate purpose was to insure quality work performance and satisfaction (BMJ Journals, 2009). Their great studies and creditability lead to interesting careers in consulting, and lifelong recognition of efficiency. One of the studies that I found interesting dealt with the quality and safety in healthcare. The Gilbreths used motion-picture films, to analyze job handling, in this case physician behavior in the surgical room. From the article, Frank Gilbreth and health care delivery method study driven learning, Denis R. Towill states, “Frank Gilbreth invented the micro chronometer, a large clock that could record time to 1/2,000th of a second. By placing the micro chronometer next to the worker in the film camera’s field of vision and attaching a flashing strobe light...
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...Nollywood at the Borders of History: Yoruba Travelling Theatre and Video Film Development in Nigeria by Abiodun Olayiwola biodunlayiwola@yahoo.ca Department of English, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria Abiodun Olayiwola holds a doctoral degree in Film Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He teaches drama and theatre in the Department of English, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. He has published articles in refereed international and local journals on Nigerian video film, fiction and globalization, educational drama and theatre, film and literature and performance studies. His directing credits include the video films: Eleven Forty Five (2005), Agbalagba Akan (2007), Ikekun (2009), Ojiji Iwa (2010) and, Emi Mi, Emi Re (2010) which was nominated for Best African Indigenous Director at ZAFAA 2010 AWARDS held in London. Dr Olayiwola is highly interested in researches on film theory and praxis. Abstract The origin of video film genre in Nigeria is shrouded in conflicting views and contentions. Indigenous film historians and critics are yet to agree on who could be credited as the initiator of the video revolution in Nigeria. While some available documents trace this genre to Kenneth Nnebue’s Living in Bondage produced in 1992, arguments at other quarters present the Yoruba filmmakers as the pioneers of the bourgeoning video film industry in Nigeria, and thus accuse others of subverting history in favor...
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...When 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 to learn how these variables play a part in the success of a motion picture. The main concern of management in this case would be with regard to revenue, profit, and entertainment. In this case study it was found that there was a high correlation between the total gross sales and the opening gross sales, time spent in the Top 60 and the number of theaters played in, indicating that movie makers should take these variables into consideration when trying to predict or plan for a successful movie. The motion picture industry is a cutthroat, multi-billion dollar industry involving a diverse number of contributors to making a successful movie. From production crews, actors, and directors to marketing crews, distribution companies and movie theaters, there is substantial time and effort put into these creations and there are four variables commonly used to measure the return on this investment. These variables include the opening weekend gross sales, total gross sales...
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...The Unfairness and Vagueness of the MPAA Rating System Many people take notice of a film rating, whether in the theater or on the DVD case. The American culture, especially, relies very heavily on these ratings. Oftentimes, there is almost an incredible amount of trust put in them. But where did this trust come from, and is it really deserved? The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) determines the ratings on almost every film that is produced today. Although filmmakers are not required to have a rating attached to their films, the MPAA has great power in its ratings. After a close examination of the MPAA movie rating system, it is clear that there are many flaws both because of its unfair rating of different films and also because of its vague guidelines. Before the MPAA's rating system can be critiqued, it is important to understand society's need for censorship, the difficulty in rating, and the history and past critiques of not only the MPAA's rating system, but the other systems that came before it. It is impossible to look at the rating system without questioning the need for it in the first place. Media censorship is tricky, because it must “protect both free speech and children” (Jordan 235). There is a very tricky balance between these two sides. The American government recognizes the right to free speech. This means that, technically speaking, filmmakers are allowed to be able to express what they want to express in the way that they...
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