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.
Argument states that the movies budget must be increased by 10% in order to avoid it from being a failure. This argument is highly flawed because author makes several assumptions about the first-time director as well as other casts and crew. Author also assumes that not increasing budget will virtually assure failure without proper reasoning or evidence.
The first-time director has an initial experience in shooting shampoo commercials, however, no experience in shooting movies. Hence, author assumes that director will take shoot after shoot needing extra money. Author here assumes that the director will shoot the movie same way as he shot commercials. The director might have a completely different efficient strategy of shooting for movies. He might use different camera angle or positions in order to mask anything wrong with the scene. Or have actors repeat the script several times before performing the shoot. The director might be using tools which might quicken the process of shooting. Author hasn't considered any of the above possibilities. If the director intends to reduce the time of shooting, the extra budget might not be required and the argument will be flawed.
Again, author makes another assumption without taking into considering different possibilities. Author assumes that 10% increase in the budget will be sufficient to save the movie from failure. Author fails to consider the amount of extra time the actors and crew will have to perform if director takes shoot after shoot. Director might take so many shoots that crew and actors might demand double the salary, as a result 10% might not be enough. Conversely, the actors might not even want extra salaries. They might be acting for experience or for fun. The author needs to properly study the salaries and demands of the cast and crews as well as the amount of extra time the director will be needing to shoot the movie. Not properly considering the above points might lead to waste of money or might lead to incomplete movie causing the project to fail.
Finally, another assumption that author made was that adverting business in notoriously wasteful. Author fails to provide any study or evidence that shooting advertisements is wasteful. Author assumes that simply taking extra shoots leads to waste of time or money. Extra shoots might infact be helping the video to be exactly as the director wants leading to more liking from the audience which indirectly will help making more profit. The extra money spent on the commercial might later lead to greater profits. Author must therefore consider whether there really a waste of money and time, and if there is it worth it. A little extra time and money might make the movie a blockbuster.
In conclusion, due to various assumptions regarding the director and requirement of extra money, argument is deeply flawed. Author fails to provide proper evidence for his assumptions. The salaries of actors and crew as well as wastefulness of the advertising industries must be properly studied in order to come to proper assumptions.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'conversely', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'really', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'well', 'in conclusion', 'as a result', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.271062271062 0.25644967241 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.181318681319 0.15541462614 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0677655677656 0.0836205057962 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0567765567766 0.0520304965353 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0128205128205 0.0272364105082 47% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10989010989 0.125424944231 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0531135531136 0.0416121511921 128% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.56835026284 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.03663003663 0.026700313972 137% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0952380952381 0.113004496875 84% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.047619047619 0.0255425247493 186% => Less modal verbs wanted (like 'must , shall , will , should , would , can , could , may , and might').
WH_determiners: 0.003663003663 0.0127820249294 29% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3098.0 2731.13054187 113% => OK
No of words: 502.0 446.07635468 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17131474104 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.388446215139 0.378187486979 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.260956175299 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.181274900398 0.208842608468 87% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.101593625498 0.135150697306 75% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56835026284 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 207.018472906 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434262948207 0.469332199767 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.4063415183 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 30.0 20.039408867 150% => OK
Sentence length: 16.7333333333 23.2022227129 72% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.4452787483 57.7814097925 54% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.266666667 141.986410481 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7333333333 23.2022227129 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 42.8289508632 51.9672348444 82% => OK
Elegance: 1.7299270073 1.8405768891 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.423560706388 0.441005458295 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100581060784 0.135418324435 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0774214638538 0.0829849096947 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.473102044508 0.58762219726 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.142978894057 0.147661913831 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160700141179 0.193483328276 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109288093632 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.473511512981 0.42659136922 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.148955327946 0.0774707102158 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301902158669 0.312017818177 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830476161786 0.0698173142475 119% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 19.0 6.87684729064 276% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 15.0 5.36822660099 279% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 14.657635468 164% => 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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