Essays about: "Box office"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words Box office.

  1. 1. The Class of Us: A Study Across Several Schools in Sweden Comparing the EFL Comprehension of Playing the Video Game The Last of Us Versus Viewing the Television Adaptation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Robert Bång; Simon Torffvit; Anton Grandi; [2023]
    Keywords : Comparative; Comparative Study; Quantitative; English; EFL; English as a Foreign Language; SLA; Second Language Acquisition; Comprehension; Test; Video Games; Video Game; CALL; Computer assisted language learning; The Last of Us; TLoU; The Last of Us: Remastered; Naughty Dog; PlayStation; HBO; Home Box Office; Game; Games; Computer Games; Skolverket; Upper Secondary School; Gymnasiet; Gymnasieskolan; Sweden; Control Group; Immersion; Multimodality; Interactivity; Interactive; Television; Television series; Media; Audiovisual media; Audiovisual; Large-scale; Gender; Program; Video Game Literacy; Game Literacy; Narrative; Educational; Serious Games; Mature; Problem of Content; Attitudinal; Survey; Likert-scale; Likert; Interventionist; Narratology; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Contemporary English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in upper secondary schools in Sweden make frequent use of receptive media such as movies and television to facilitate language learning. The more interactive medium of video games is seldom used for the same purpose, despite previous research indicating that the added layer of interactivity can bring benefits such as improvements to vocabulary, written production and reading comprehension. READ MORE

  3. 2. Forecasting U.S. Movie Gross Revenues : A Random Forest Classifier Approach Based on Pre-production Data

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Isak Einberg; Arian Hanifi; [2023]
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    Abstract : Blockbusters screening in cinemas often include star-studded casts in hope of becoming profitable. However, producing a movie is associated with great risk. More than half of the movies released between 2008 and 2012 in the U.S. READ MORE

  4. 3. Limitations of cGAN in functional area division for interior design

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Julia Sommarlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Neural network; Conditional generative adversarial network; Interior design; Automated design; Neurala nätverk; Villkorligt generativt motståndsnätverk; Interiördesign; Automatiserad design;

    Abstract : A process that historically has been hard to automate is interior design, mainly due to its subjective nature and lack of obvious guidelines. Scientifically, there is interest to examine if subjective processes can be automated using black box algorithms such as neural networks, as well as corporate interest in this subject to increase efficiency and create systems for automated floor plan design. READ MORE

  5. 4. Investigating Professional Film Critics’ Stance towards Commercial and Art House Cinema: : A Corpus-Based Comparative Study on the Use of Evaluative Axiological Adjectives and Engagement Devices in Professional Film Reviews of Two Film Types

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Hariklia Triantafillou; [2021]
    Keywords : evaluation; axiological adjectives; epistemic devices; appraisal model; film criticism; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : Evaluative stances are common in narrative and realized at all levels of linguistic structure. In film reviews, evaluation has been recognized as one of the most important stages alongside description (Taboada, 2011). READ MORE

  6. 5. Success at the box office in the age of streaming services : An examination of how streaming services have impacted the dynamics of successful movies in the cinema

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Nationalekonomi

    Author : Jesper Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : films; box office; streaming services; the long tail; uncertainty;

    Abstract : Netflix and other streaming services have grown immensely since they started offering online streaming. In this paper I present a correlation matrix using ticket sales at the domestic box office and the number of Netflix subscribers. READ MORE