Abstract
The entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television. These particular segments can be diluted and simplified into movies, TV shows, radio shows. news, music, newspapers, books and magazines. Movies, in general, have always been the behemoth, or the giant that carries the entertainment industry into the successful industry that we see today. Throughout the increasing development in technology, the accessibility of this industry has also risen quite exponentially. We can see and study the factors of how movies or films helped the entertainment industry to become as successful as they are in this day and age.
Introduction
Great movies often offer a memorable experience for the watchers. At the end of the day, the production of a movie does not matter much in terms of how successful it will be, because the reason why a movie is successful is depending on the people that watched it. Undoubtedly, movies and the way that it is made are evolving as time passes, and different times call for different measures. Generally, this study is being done to see the successful rate of a movie, particularly in this modern age, and to help the people that will make them to cater to these results in their future projects.
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Objectives
The purpose of this data set is to give a better understanding and see the pattern of movies in terms of how successful it is. To be precise, the purpose of this study is to provide further information in regards to the aspects that make a movie successful from users’ or profit perspective, and it can be combined with other movie datasets publicly available (RottenTomatoes, FilmTV, etc.).
These aspects can be divided into:
• To test if there are any differences between the mean of the number of user reviews
and the number of critic reviews for a movie.
• To see the relationship between the number of votes and the average vote.
• To study the relationship between the duration of a movie and its metascore.
• To see the dependency of the average vote towards the year that the movie was
released.
Reflection
Upon completing this project, a lot of knowledge and understanding towards data analysis were identified and learned. I finished this project with an inspiring amount of clarity and enlightenment. The analysis that I did, like hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and also chi square test of independence, helped me to open my eyes to the world of data management and analysis while allowing me to appreciate the intricate ways of analysing datasets.
This project not only helped me to understand data analysis, but it also opened a new chapter of programming for me, which is R Studio. I find this software to be extremely useful in managing large amount of data like the dataset that I used which consists of 941 movies with 22 variables. A simple yet effective software like R Studio aided a beginner like me to understand the fundamentals of data analysis and my appreciation towards it cannot be explained by mere words. My hope for the future is for students like me to be able to use this software and this knowledge of data analysis to bring upon a better and deeper realization on the importance of data analysis.
Conclusion
The dataset that I had used contains a different amount of data from the original dataset that were collected by Stefano Leone. However, I would argue that my data was taken in order to keep the technicalities and calculations in R Studio to be done steadily, minimizing errors that would pop out because of certain data that could not be collected as some of the movies were released too long ago and their data is unusable. In spite of that, I am satisfied with my results as it aligns with my original objective which was to study the user’s perspective and the perspective of profit on movies.
In conclusion, the reasons that make a movie successful can vary greatly when seen in different perspectives. Before making a movie, filmmakers should consider the past and see how moviegoers respond to certain types of movies in order to create a successful one. I believe that the objectives of this study were successfully achieved and I hope that more research and innovation will be done to maintain the entertainment industry as it is today.