A movie producer sent the following memo to the head of the movie studio.
“We need to increase the funding for the movie Working Title by 10% in order to ensure a quality product. As you know, we are working with a first-time director, whose only previous experience has been shooting commercials for a shampoo company. Since the advertising business is notoriously wasteful, it stands to reason that our director will expect to be able to shoot take after take, without concern for how much time is being spent on any one scene. In addition, while we have saved money by hiring relatively inexperienced assistant producers and directors, this savings in salary will undoubtedly translate to greater expenditures in paying the actors and unionized crew overtime for the extra hours they will spend on the set waiting for the assistant directors and producers to arrange things. If we don’t get this extra money, the movie is virtually assured to be a failure.”
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The memo sent by the movie producer is considering a lot of assumptions which needs to be examined before validating the memo.
The producer states that increasing the budget will ensure a quality product. Although attention to minute details more often that not result in creation of a better film but just increasing the budget is not the only requiremtn for granteeing a quality product.employing the extra budget at the correct places is the most important thing which is to be made sure so as to obtain a quality product.Given the fact that the director has no experience in movie directing and his only experience is of making advertisement films it is unjust to conclude that his direction of the film is not upto the mark.And it is even more harsh to extrapolate that he will take a longer time to shoot a scene. It is assumed by the producer that the director will take longer time without any knowledge about his directing capabilities.Although he is inexperienced he can be good at what he is doing and this assumption can be rendered false.Moreover, same assumption is made by the producer while quoting about the assistant producer and directors. As the producer will be supervising the assistant producer, the producer should make his assistants work faster and with more responsibility.Given the fact that assistant producers and directors are inexperienced but their effectiveness in their work and their ability to fulfill their job can't be assumed to be inefficient.
A team of inexperienced personnels can be lead by the producer and they can be made to work effectively and at a rapid pace to ensure that less amount of time is wasted on arranging things on set.Thus this assumption that the less experience of the assistant producers will lead to deterioration of the quality of the movie.
The actors as stated are going to charge for the extra time they are going to put in shooting the scenes. But in common practice the actors are paid on the movie basis and not on the scene basis so it is unlikely that they will charge extra amount for the extra time they are putting in.further more the extra time spent on the shots for their better execution will result in better quality of movie which in turn enhances the reputation and make the actors more famous. This will benefit the actors in long run so it is unlikely that they will object and ask to be paid more for extra time they are putting in for the shooting.
The final point of the note mentions that if the money is not provided the movie is assured to be a failure. Failure of a movie cant be just attributed to the roles of directors , producers and other staff. For a movie to be a good quality one, the most important factor is the script on which the movie runs. If the script of the movie is not a good one and has loose plot and incoherent turns, the movie is likely to fail despite having an experienced staff. A director and a producer , even at their best , can produce a movie which is as good as its script and storyline.Getting an experienced staff does not suffice the necessary ingredients for a good movie.
Thus in conclusion the argument made by the producer for increase in funds to ensure a good quality product is a shaky one and rests on assumptions which are not necessarily true and can;t be attributed to films success
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- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers. 50
- A movie producer sent the following memo to the head of the movie studio.“We need to increase the funding for the movie Working Title by 10% in order to ensure a quality product. As you know, we are working with a first-time director, whose only previou 50
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'as to', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227495908347 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.194762684124 0.15541462614 125% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0834697217676 0.0836205057962 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0458265139116 0.0520304965353 88% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0425531914894 0.0272364105082 156% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.126022913257 0.125424944231 100% => OK
Participles: 0.063829787234 0.0416121511921 153% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88963846355 2.79052419416 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0343698854337 0.026700313972 129% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.132569558101 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0261865793781 0.0255425247493 103% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.013093289689 0.0127820249294 102% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3330.0 2731.13054187 122% => OK
No of words: 591.0 446.07635468 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6345177665 6.12365571057 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93056706295 4.57801047555 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.285956006768 0.378187486979 76% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.206429780034 0.287650121315 72% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.160744500846 0.208842608468 77% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108291032149 0.135150697306 80% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88963846355 2.79052419416 104% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 207.018472906 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.372250423012 0.469332199767 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 44.3287514658 52.1807786196 85% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 39.4 23.2022227129 170% => OK
Sentence length SD: 142.400593008 57.7814097925 246% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 222.0 141.986410481 156% => OK
Words per sentence: 39.4 23.2022227129 170% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.533333333333 0.724660767414 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 3.58251231527 475% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 60.0429780034 51.9672348444 116% => OK
Elegance: 1.47398843931 1.8405768891 80% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.495674581962 0.441005458295 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.251745538408 0.135418324435 186% => Sentence is so close to another sentence.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.114329949777 0.0829849096947 138% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.755749990366 0.58762219726 129% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162518495779 0.147661913831 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.294282793279 0.193483328276 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742487736363 0.0970749176394 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.408566837404 0.42659136922 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0658096054681 0.0774707102158 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.366492747908 0.312017818177 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426692048289 0.0698173142475 61% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.