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 states the requirement of an increase in the funds for a movie to prevent it from being a failure. It is said that due to the new director and other inexperienced workers, more time would be required to produce a successful shot. At the first glance this seems justified however, on further analysis there are various shortcomings of the proposal.
Firstly, it is said that since the director has no previous experience in the movie industry he will require more takes and time to produce a successful scene. However, without any further information about how long he has been in the commercial industry and his approach to the film this cannot be determined. There is a possibility that the director has been in the commercial industry for a long time and his with that knowledge he might be able to produce a successful scene within a short span of time. Also, since generally the commercial industry is thrifty it cannot be generalized without knowing the reasons for the excessive expenditure and if the same applies to the movie industry.
Secondly, being a new director he would want the success of the movie and hence will put in more effort to arrange things on time. It also depends on the other members of the film and the knowledge they have to arrange the things on time and effectively.
Thirdly, an increase in the funds of 10% may still not guarantee that the film will not be a failure. The success of a film depends on various factors like the subject of the movie, the actors, the language and many more.
As a result, the author does not provide a compelling reason for the increase in the funds and due to limited information provided by the author the argument stands flawed. It can be substantialized by giving more facts about the director, his background and approach to the new movie.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'third', 'thirdly', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21613832853 0.25644967241 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.135446685879 0.15541462614 87% => OK
Adjectives: 0.100864553314 0.0836205057962 121% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0432276657061 0.0520304965353 83% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0403458213256 0.0272364105082 148% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.126801152738 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0345821325648 0.0416121511921 83% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68243527124 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0317002881844 0.026700313972 119% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.164265129683 0.113004496875 145% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.028818443804 0.0255425247493 113% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0028818443804 0.0127820249294 23% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1824.0 2731.13054187 67% => OK
No of words: 320.0 446.07635468 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.7 6.12365571057 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.57801047555 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.315625 0.378187486979 83% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.265625 0.287650121315 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.175 0.208842608468 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.09375 0.135150697306 69% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68243527124 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 207.018472906 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45625 0.469332199767 97% => OK
Word variations: 45.2249529009 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.039408867 65% => OK
Sentence length: 24.6153846154 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.6306653884 57.7814097925 51% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.307692308 141.986410481 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6153846154 23.2022227129 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.07692307692 0.724660767414 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 51.1778846154 51.9672348444 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.72368421053 1.8405768891 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.493381777316 0.441005458295 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.154265445472 0.135418324435 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.091047136681 0.0829849096947 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.714909278742 0.58762219726 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0927830739331 0.147661913831 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.274532739699 0.193483328276 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074197851457 0.0970749176394 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.476484253004 0.42659136922 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.025734078846 0.0774707102158 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.378356664905 0.312017818177 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327809592942 0.0698173142475 47% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 5.36822660099 37% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 9.0 14.657635468 61% => 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.