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 given claim is memo sent by producer to the movie studio suggesting an increase in the movie funding by 10% for producing a quality product. He believes that without such increase in the funding the movie will be nothing but an assured failure. However, while making such a claim, the proudcer has made many assumptions which have no vaild evidence to prove to be true. Thus, without further information about the arguments made by the movie producer, we are not in a position to conclude anything on the recommendation made by him to increase the movie funding.
To begin with, the author claims that the funding for the movie is to be increased by 10% for them to make a quality product. Here he makes an assumption that the quality of the movie only depends on the funding of a particluar movie. It is pertinent to note that, the quality of any product is not only dependent on the amont of fund to make the product but the amount and the way the resources are utilised in making the product. For instance, if you have 100 dollars to make a pen, and you use 99 dollars working on the outer look of the pen and only 1 dollar on the refil and ink. Does this mean the pen looks good but is of a quality product? Obviously, no right. In the same way the authour assumes that only by increased funding the quality shall improve automatically, forgetting the fact that the quality deoends on the resources at disposal. In case, the resources are proved to be not very talented, or it proves out that the resources are allocated in very inefficient manner, then the asusmption made by the authour shall stand unwarranted and no matter how much the funding is incresed, only when focus is shifted to the resources and their utilisation quality of the priduct cannot be improved.
Secondly, he claims that the advertising for the fim is notoriously wasteful, due to the fact that the director takes many scenes without having a concern of time spent on each scene there by incresing the funds to be given to each actor or actress. Here, the claim is again based on asusmption that mass advertising is more important irrespective of the quality of the product. This is directly contradicting the first claim he made regarding the quality of product. He believes that the advertising of the product is more important, but in relaity even with mass advertising and no wuality of the movie, the movie is ought to be a flop. For instance, consider Saaho, a telugu movie, mass advertising and suspense is created among the people, but when the movie actually release, it only led to the dissapointment fo the people due to the bad quality of acting and poor storyline. However, if the producer focuses more on the advertisment and forgets the quality, this assumption will only lead to the downfall of the movie.
Moreover, he claims that he has reduced the expenditure by employing inexcperienced assistant directors, but eventually such save money is being spent on the actors and other crew for the extra hours spend due to the inexperience directors. This argument is based on the assumption of the inexperience of the directors, the actors are being paid extra. This is a faulty claim as we do not have any evidence on the poor performance of the directors. In fact, without evidence, one can assume that the directors are only working on improving the quality more by spending extra time and effor to make the movie right. This assumption, if proved wrong will cost the film, the most important factor, its qulaity. So, it is recommended for the autor to be wise before coming to any conclusions.
Finally, he makes a statement that if they cannot procure this extra funding, the movie is assure to be a faliure. This statement is fundamentally wrong sue to the various assumptions made by the autor on the meaning of quality, expenditure on advertisement and experience of the directors employed. Without any further evidence, we are not in a position to conclude anything on the author's recommendations. It is wise for the producer to check various other factors influencing the quality before taking any decions.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 716 350
No. of Characters: 3326 1500
No. of Different Words: 275 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.173 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.645 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.679 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 217 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 185 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 111 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.549 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.679 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.491 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.191 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 92, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'assured'.
Suggestion: assured
...rocure this extra funding, the movie is assure to be a faliure. This statement is fund...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, however, if, look, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, for instance, in fact, to begin with, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.6327345309 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 99.0 55.5748502994 178% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3410.0 2260.96107784 151% => OK
No of words: 716.0 441.139720559 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7625698324 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.17283059074 4.56307096286 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76492434869 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 204.123752495 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402234636872 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1091.7 705.55239521 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 4.96107784431 363% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4464640304 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.785714286 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.89285714286 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295874371448 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.087349959455 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898158919824 0.0701772020484 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173528803002 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0759980030423 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 98.500998004 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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