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 argument of the movie producer is that funding for the movie Working Title should be increased by 10%. He gives the reasons that if the funding is increased it will be a quality product and the first-time director would be able to spend more time on all scenes. Also he states that if they don't get extra money, the money is assured to be a failure. The argument at first looks convincing but on studying we discover a lot of fallacies.
The first loophole of the argument is that the movie producer assumes that working with a first-time director, who has only done commercial for shampoo company will ensure a quality end product. How will he be able to direct a movie? Instead they should have hired some experienced director, who has experience in movie making. By increasing the funding What is the guarantee that the first-director will make a quality product? Shooting for commercial and shooting for movie both are poles apart.
Also the author assumes that the director will be able to shoot take after take without concern of the time. If the director will waste time in many takes Will the movie be ever made? Also the actor of the movie will be frustrated with the director which will affect the end result. The author also assumes that the advertising business is notoriously wasteful .On what basis has he made this assumption? What is the relation of the advertising business with the movie?
Furthermore, the producer goes to say that they have saved money by hiring inexperienced assistant producers and directors. How will the movie be a success if such people are working behind it? Also he says that this savings in salary would translate to greater expenditures in paying the actors and crew overtime for the extra hours they will spend on the set waiting for the assistant directors and producers to arrange things.Why will the actors and crew wait when things are not arranged just for money?
The movie producer, in the end says that if funding is not provided then it is sure to fail, but even if funding is given Will it be a success with inchoate and incipient crew and directors? The whole unit can't be only filled with inexperienced people. These people should be made to work under experienced people first before handing a movie of this scale.
The argument can be strengthened by answering the above questions. He should make a detail analysis of factors for a movie to be successful and on the basis of those factors he should write to the head of the movie studio. As it stands however, the argument is flawed.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'then']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.240585774059 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.194560669456 0.15541462614 125% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0564853556485 0.0836205057962 68% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0397489539749 0.0520304965353 76% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0355648535565 0.0272364105082 131% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.123430962343 0.125424944231 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0585774058577 0.0416121511921 141% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.53979335292 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0230125523013 0.026700313972 86% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.133891213389 0.113004496875 118% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0439330543933 0.0255425247493 172% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0209205020921 0.0127820249294 164% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2564.0 2731.13054187 94% => OK
No of words: 447.0 446.07635468 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.73601789709 6.12365571057 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.308724832215 0.378187486979 82% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.23937360179 0.287650121315 83% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.156599552573 0.208842608468 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.089485458613 0.135150697306 66% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53979335292 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 207.018472906 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436241610738 0.469332199767 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.879271086 52.1807786196 92% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.4347826087 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5020293216 57.7814097925 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.47826087 141.986410481 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4347826087 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.391304347826 0.724660767414 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 3.58251231527 391% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 43.3721427877 51.9672348444 83% => OK
Elegance: 1.56589147287 1.8405768891 85% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.550121143988 0.441005458295 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.112828592147 0.135418324435 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.107726210443 0.0829849096947 130% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.570834664488 0.58762219726 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.17426153941 0.147661913831 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.232190476234 0.193483328276 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109352875786 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.41531239225 0.42659136922 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0853184446226 0.0774707102158 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.383479075419 0.312017818177 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683797380044 0.0698173142475 98% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.