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Using the professor's example, explain what an establishing shot is and how it is used.
The Establishing Shot
Film directors use different types of camera shots for specific purposes. An establishing shot is an image shown briefly at the beginning of a scene, usually taken from far away, that is used to provide context for the rest of the scene. One purpose of the establishing shot is to communicate background information to the viewer, such as the setting—where and when the rest of the scene will occur. It also establishes the mood or feeling of the scene. Due to the context that the establishing shot provides, the characters and events that are shown next are better understood by the viewer.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-11-05 | ashish40501 | 58.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-22 | Mai Shadouf | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-11-05 | ashish40501 | 58.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-08 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-05 | ashish40501 | 58.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 607.0 592.248995984 102% => OK
No of words: 158.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8417721519 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.54539209256 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.63630547076 1.79077849142 91% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 93.7148594378 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664556962025 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 184.5 185.844578313 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0122143103732 0.0650381309087 19% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 31.6 68.503853103 46% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 19.9759855827 21.3332995233 94% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.752 25.9943957902 45% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.69330982088 7.84667146824 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.15789473684 4.02192344571 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.87023120093 3.1217529195 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.40894736842 1.45093177766 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.826800394271 0.99851816184 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 39.0421686747 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.75 7.12997991968 81% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1796875 0.185688545393 97% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.169714546647 0.155154303396 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.27 47.1480722892 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.280189873418 0.305395592593 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.139780440488 0.189427763521 74% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.24 6.2937751004 36% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.66 3.39508032129 196% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.76 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.979333333333 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.544588155208 0.656000678711 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.68890401634 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78692988428 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37180935171 1.99336655568 119% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.260152411392 0.317803793328 82% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.