"The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company. "According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies actually increased during the past year. Clearly, the contents of these reviews are not reaching enough of our prospective viewers. Thus, the problem lies not with the quality of our movies but with the public's lack of awareness that movies of good quality are available. Super Screen should therefore allocate a greater share of its budget next year to reaching the public through advertising."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In order to provide recommendations to make something better, it is necessary to clearly identify the shortcomings of the past so that corrective measures can be targeted in the right direction. Any movie has a storyline that brings about a message which is directed towards a particular section of the society. This section of the society that relates itself to the story of the movie. In most of the cases, movies achieve popularity in that particular section of the society. It is important to identify the movies released by Super Screen, their target audience and the marketing strategy that was employed to popularise the movie at the time of its release. An analysis that is prepared by taking into consideration both of these factors, can be considered valid. Such an analysis can be taken into account for formulating corrective steps towards eradicating the existing problem of Super Screen production house.
It is important to know the target section of the viewers that were considered by the marketing team while making the reports of their each and every movie. Super Screen might have produced movies belonging to a number of genres. It is necessary to check if the marketing team has taken into consideration the various factors that might have affected the viewership of the movie at the time when it was released. For example, if the movie was animated and its target section was children aged 2-10 years, then it is important to check if the movie was released at the time when their exams were around the corner. In such scenarios, irrespective of how critically acclaimed the movie must have been or how great it was marketed, the movie will still have fewer than anticipated viewership owing to the exams of the children. Hence it is important to clarify with the marketing team of Super Screen if they have taken into account such factors regarding each and every movie that Super Screen has produced in the past year.
There might be a possibility that some movies with great storylines and highly appreciated by the movie critics did not receive the expected popularity among viewers due to lack of proper marketing. In such cases, it is important to evaluate the kind of marketing that was employed when such a movie was about to be released by Super Screen. The marketing strategies need to be on-point to help movies reach out to the audience. Hence, the question if an allocation of more budget is needed or not, should be followed by the answer to the question of how efficiently the previously allocated budget was put to use and if there were any shortcomings to efficiently use that budget. Hence, those shortcomings need to be eradicated as well. Otherwise, irrespective of the amount of budget allocated, if the marketing strategies of Super Screen are not in the right direction, then all of it can go to waste in the future as well, adding little or no benefit to the existing problem of Super Screen produced movies.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 504 350
No. of Characters: 2415 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.738 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.792 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.671 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.526 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.801 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.48 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 729, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... have been or how great it was marketed, the movie will still have fewer than ant...
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Line 3, column 827, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...hip owing to the exams of the children. Hence it is important to clarify with the mar...
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Line 5, column 873, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r Screen are not in the right direction, then all of it can go to waste in the fu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, if, regarding, so, still, then, well, while, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 55.5748502994 148% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2458.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87698412698 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72345696001 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414682539683 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 790.2 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.4023107653 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.368421053 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5263157895 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78947368421 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295692110842 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102910582278 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.162769815548 0.0701772020484 232% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227572240219 0.128457276422 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.168616581066 0.0628817314937 268% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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