...March 2012 Movie Comparison Watching movies at home or at a movie theater is a great way to have fun in so many different ways. Both options provide unique atmospheres but only one option can be truly more comfortable to watch. Keeping in mind all of the various factors; late night movie premiers versus staying comfortably at home, having a quite peaceful movie experience without interruptions versus the talkative social atmosphere of a indoor theater, or even enhancing the movie experience with expensive IMAX/ 3D that most standard television sets don’t provide. All these factors are important when deciding on how and where an individual may watch their next motion picture. Trying to weigh out the positives and negatives of watching movies at home compared to going to your local movie theater just became simple. All of us can relate to that exciting feeling as the hours countdown to a midnight showing of movie. It can be a real treat, but is it really that big of a blockbuster of a movie to be the first one to see it? Midnight showings usually play around twelve o’clock in the middle of the night. These hours are late and can interfere with work or school the next morning. Instead of trying to buy the last remaining tickets for a midnight showing, it would be much easier to watch a movie at home comfortably on your couch or even on your bed. According to Engadget.com, “sometimes the hype of a movie commercial and the reviews of being the #1 Comedy/Horror movie of the year”...
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...2013 Rewrite Watching a movie at home and watching it in a theater Watching a movie at home or watching a movie in a theater, which one do you prefer? This answer could vary, depending on who you ask. It could depend on the amenities that a person has in their home, such as a home theater system. It could also depend on if a person is a home body, or if the person is someone who likes to go out for social interaction. Then it becomes home viewing versus theater viewing. Regardless on the person you ask there are definitely similarities and differences which will be covered in this paper. Watching movies at home has come a long way over the past few years. With technology increasing and prices decreasing on high definition televisions, projectors, and surround sound stereo systems home theaters are becoming more popular. With home theaters you have the convenience of viewing a movie at home with the same viewing experience as you would in the theater. When viewing at home you are able to watch movies at your convenience, while being able to pause, fast forward, rewind, a convenience you would not have if viewing a movie in a theater. Also viewing a movie at home you have the comfort of lying in bed, relaxing on a sofa, and eating whatever you like. Whereas when viewing a movie at the theater you have whatever amenities they provide. Another convenience of home viewing is the aspect of cost, when viewing a movie at home there is little to no cost for the movie. Whereas if...
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...Upgrading Technologies: Creates a Real-Life Movie Going Experience May 8, 2012 Abstract AMC Theatres began upgrades in their theatre technologies in 2009. Their project objective was to gain status as the number one movie exhibition industry in the world. The scope of the project would upgrade all of their facilities to incorporate 3D technologies, premium viewing, and state-of-the-art sound systems. This project would immerse the movie viewer into a real-life experience, thereby enticing the viewer to return satisfied, and become a steady patron of the company. Their estimated timeline for completion on technology upgrades for its remaining theatres is 2014. AMC Theatres, which stands for American Multi-Cinema was founded in 1920 when a father and his two sons purchased the Regent theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. AMC is second only to Regal Theatres, as a leading global movie theatre chain. The company gives credit to one particular son named Stanley Durwood. He believed that playing a multiple selection of movies in one movie house would in-turn lead to more guests, and more profits. This simple idea revolutionized the movie exhibition industry and became a blueprint for the industry. The concept for the movie theatre was born. It is this kind of inspiration that has encouraged the AMC Corporation to introduce more industry firsts. AMC was looking for a way to bring in new customers and refresh old patron relationships. Movie sales had begun to slump in the early 90’s...
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...Movie Attendance Declining The situation is familiar. It is a Saturday evening and a typical American citizen is thinking of how he or she will spend his or her night. Going to the movies has continued to be a popular weekend activity throughout history. The theater has allowed people to escape from their busy lives and enjoy the entertainment brought through the movies. In articles “Study Finds Movie Attendance Declining as More Americans Act out Films At Home” from The Onion and “Fewer Americans Go to the Movies” from The Wall Street Journal, they discuss how movie attendance has declined and ticket prices have increased. Although both pieces assert the same argument towards America’s movie-going audience, the satirical article from The Onion is more effective. Statistics show that movie attendance declines each year. This result could be from a variety of possible factors. The article from The Onion claims that Americans are choosing to act out films at home instead of seeing the movies at the theater. The piece states that“72 percent of respondents said they enjoyed the flexibility of home-acting versus watching movies in the theater (“Study Finds Movie Attendance Declining”).” This possibility may seem comical, but when thinking more in depth to why staying home would make issues disappear such as needing to use...
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...subject by subject Books vs Movies (capitalize both words) There are different ways to get a story from different sources in modern times. Books have been good sources for stories, but movies are getting more popular and have the same story with wrong word the books. Why auxiliary verb needed people still reading books, and others are prefer watching should be an infinitive not a gerund the movies? Reading books and watching movies have a lot in common but there are some differences that makes the readers remain faithful to reading books. First, books keep a person’s mind going. A mind is filled with questionspunctuation and as the wheels in your head are turning, your brain is being put to more use rather than if you let it go numb during a movie. It is basically the same as watching television versus going outside and playing for a couple of hours. Movies are like a version of a television show, wrong punctuationthey are just longer. Everyone has heard that if you watch TV for too long it is not good for you, that you should pick up a good book instead.comma splice Should not the same rule apply when it comes to watching a movie? You are contrasting movies and books but you go off on another idea of television. Keep on topic and show how books contrast to movies. In this paragraph you are trying to show how the brain reacts differently to movies and books. (Give more examples of that.) Films can do a lot of different things. They can bring whole worlds to life before...
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...The Experiment (2010) The Experiment is a thriller based upon a psychological study, ‘’Stanford Prison Experiment’’ conducted in 1971, where men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners. Paul T. Scheuring, who also wrote the screenplay, directed the movie. The Experiment is a remake of the German movie Das Experiment (2001) both of which are loosely based on the novel Das Experiment – Black Box (1999) by German writer and actor Mario Giordano. Besides writing the book Giordano wrote the screenplay for Das Experiment. The movie is about an experiment that goes wrong. We follow Travis, a regular guy who gets fired and therefore says yes to participate in an experiment in exchange of money. For about a week he is being tested with a lot of others men. In this experiment-center he is asked about his past, his present and his future. So is everyone else. He then has to sit in a tiny, dark room with a slideshow of gruesome pictures and video clips. Thereafter 26 men are selected to be participate and are taken to the prison where they are given the roles of guards and prisoners. Here the participants are given five rules. Guards were informed that those prisoners who break the rules must be punished commensurately. The experiment is on for about six days until the prisoners finally tries to escape which leads to a big fight between the guards and the prisoners. Finally the red lights come on, the gates open and the experiment is over. The Experiment...
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...a part of online grocery shopping, where consumers used to search their required products and order through online processes. The fund access behavior is also used in online grocery shopping while purchasing products through online by using their credit/debit cards or net banking. Sometime, customers used to order through online but visit the nearest stores to bring the product after inspecting; such as fresh vegetables, milk products and meat or animal proteins etc. therefore, they must search for the nearest store and product and contact them to bring those pre-ordered products. There are several behaviors involved in online grocery shopping. For peapod grocery, the order were filled at affiliated stores and delivered to the customer’s home in a ninety minute time period; this save the customers time and reduced the stress that grocery shopping often causes due to lack of time and overcrowding. For these conveniences, the consumers were willing to pay a monthly fee as well as a fee per order that included the services of packaging, transporting, and delivering. Most of the items available for this service are brand name goods, which caused little risk in the consumers mind in purchasing their products and their goods ending up not being quality. Even produce and meat are able to be ordered without much concern. Online grocery shopping has many advantages over traditional grocery shopping, but there are a few downsides to the online experience as well, in terms of behavioral...
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...Netflix’s Business Model and Strategy in renting Movies and TV Episodes Reed Hastings, founder and CEO, launched Netflix as an online rental movie service in 1999. Netflix is a company that distributes movies and television by streaming online and mail delivery. There are eight different membership options to choose from each varying in number of DVDs rented out at a time. Netflix also offers to stream movies and television series directly from their website to different devices (i.e. Pc, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Wii, PS3). The over all goals for Netflix are simple: to build the world’s best Internet movie service and to deliver a growing subscriber base and earning per share every year. 1. Identify the key elements of Netflix’s strategy. What competitive advantages is Netflix trying to achieve? Key Elements of Netflix Strategy ! Providing subscribers...
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...Theater Industry: A Constant Evolution of Entertainment Matthew Richards BU224 Microeconomics Professor Biasca 29April2014 Introduction The lights go down. The screen illuminates. And the theatre comes alive. There's nothing quite like the feeling of watching a movie on the giant silver screen. But how has the entertainment industry continued to stay profitable despite changes in technology and attendance. The demand for entertainment will always be there. Creating a unique entertainment experience as well as a pleasurable one is now the focus of many theaters. Brief History North America 1905. Gathered outside the store front there is a group of people staring inside. This was the scene for the first type of indoor exhibition known as a movie theater. For the cost of a nickel you too could enjoy the scene. Nickelodeons were the first form of movie theaters here in North America. Their popularity ranged from 1905 until 1915. During these times there were approximately 8,000 nickelodeons. As of June 1, 2013 there are 23, 152 screens in over 1,848 sites. The top four leading companies today are Regal Cinemas, Cinemark, AMC, and Carmike Cinemas making up 78% of the market out of the top 10 companies. (Cororan, 2013) To figure out how one industry could change so much in just one century we look towards Adam Smith and his invisible hand metaphor. He states that through the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace, individuals can make profit and maximize their earnings...
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...Hastings. The concept of Netflix came to fruition when Hastings was strong armed into paying $40 in late fees after returning a movie well past its due date. Hastings’ initial investment of $ 2.5 million was to be used as start up cash for Netflix. The Netflix website was launched in April of 1998, employing a mere 30 employees and offering a limited selection of 925 movies available for rent via an online pay-per-rental model costing $4 per rental plus $2 shipping and late fees applied. In September of 1999 the month subscription concept was introduced, thereby eliminating the pay-per-rental model in early 2000. Netflix built a reputation on their business model of flat-free unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling or per title rental fees. Netflix had their initial public offering (IPO) on May 29, 2002 selling over 5 million shares of stock at $15 a share and in June of the same year Netflix sold an additional 825,000 shares of stock at the same price. By 2005 Netflix had grown substantially, they were now offering over 35,000 title films and they were shipping a million DVD’s a day. In 2007 after delivering its billionth DVD Netflix began moving away from the business model of mailing DVDs and introduced video-on-demand via the internet. In September of 2011 Netflix announced that they would be re-structuring its DVD home media rental service leading to the loss of nearly a million subscribers. Things began picking back up for Netflix shortly...
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...The 12 Angry Men Case Dennis Ojwang Organizational Management 701 February 26, 2015 When this movie was made, no one could have depicted that it would greatly speak of the ever changing dynamics of our world today. Immigration and diversity seem to have plagued the world now more than ever and it is no surprise that the business world has been changed tremendously. When this movie came out in 1957, there wasn’t much diversity as we see it today. Upon watching this movie, various topics covered, ranging from power and influence, ethical decision making and diversity, group formation and dynamics, cultural diversity, organizational culture, conflict management and then, there’s an introduction of Fiedler’s leadership model. The setting of the movie offers consistency, investment, rigidity, autonomy and fairness in terms of assessing different levels of conflict and negotiation. I would say that the most evident styles of conflict in the movie are accommodating, compromising and collaborating conflict resolution styles. The jury is involved in a high profile case about a young boy who, if found guilty, then he will be sent to the electric chair. There are several topics that are related to organizational management class that will be portrayed throughout this jury process. The jury, in determining the fate of the young man, who murdered his father, must closely work together and whether consciously or unconsciously, they have been introduced to the forming, storming, norming...
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...Running head: GATTACA: THE GENETIC ENGINEERING STORY Gattaca: The Genetic Engineering Story Carl D. Knapp DeVry University Online/HUMN424 Gattaca: The Genetic Engineering Story The movie, “Gattaca”, comes to us as a possible window into our “not-so-distant-future.”(Niccols, 1997) This possible window into the future shows us what life could be like if human genetic engineering is utilized to the greatest effort. The character Vincent in the movie explained that they have taken discrimination down to a science. (Niccols, 1997) Vincent knows that due to his inferiority to the world made him a part of the underclass, which isn’t classed by his social status, but rather his genes. The writer/director of this film, Andrew Niccols, shows the world this different form of discrimination that could be in our futures. As we know, there are people that are already making orders of how they want their children to look. Will our society continue on this path to where we are eventually just like the people of Gattaca? Is genetic engineering ethical? Has watching this movie changed my opinion of gentic engineering? In the beginning of the movie, we learn that Vincent was conceived through natural means. This means that he wasn’t genetically engineered to be perfect. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, genetic engineering is “the artificial manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to modify an organism or population...
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...Netflix Video Game Streaming Name MKT/421 Date Instructor Name Netflix Video Game Streaming Marketing Plan: Phase I Trying to introduce a new product or service into an already well-established industry can be an intimidating, yet profitable idea. Take Netflix and the media rental industry as an example. In 1997, Netflix made their debut into the online media rental industry (Netflix, 2013). About 10 years later, their flat rate monthly rental fees, their stellar DVD-by-mail service, and their streaming media options had turned Netflix into a media rental powerhouse. However, video games are one aspect of media rental and streaming that the company has consistently steered clear of. To demonstrate that Netflix could (and perhaps should) offer video game rental and streaming options as their next step for growth, a marketing plan can be established. This marketing plan should include: an overview of the Netflix organization; a description of the proposed video game services; an explanation of the significance of this new service to Netflix; a SWOTT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and trends) analysis of this service; and the marketing research approach and strategy that would be used to implement video games into Netflix’s service lineup. Organization overview. Established in 1997, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded Netflix with one goal; to revolutionize the way people enjoyed entertainment (Netflix, 2013). At its inception, Netflix was a membership-based...
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...Star Wars Blue Ray Toshi and Allen Watch Star Wars for the first time.. Chapter 1: We kick off a special series with a first viewing of 'Star Wars' on Blu-ray What happens when 21st century kids finally watch the biggest myth of the '70s? Thursday, Sep 22, 2011 This day has been a long time coming. We all have landmarks by which we measure our lives and our accomplishments, goals you've set for yourself that you've either accomplished or not, and I'm certainly someone who holds film experiences very dear. The moment I knew I'd spend the rest of my life somehow involved in movies took place in a dark movie theater when I was seven years old, and it was one of those lightning bolt occasions. I felt pinned to the back of my chair as I watched a tiny blockade runner fleeing from a seemingly endless Star Destroyer that just kept coming out and over, more real than anything I had ever seen, and I've never wavered in my determination to be involved in storytelling somewhere, somehow. Because of the relevance of "Star Wars" in my development as a fan of storytelling in general, reaching the moment of sharing these films with my kids has been one of my primary goals since I've been writing about the entire experience of sharing narrative with my children. I know people who start screening the films for their kids as soon as they are old enough to open their eyes, and I respect that. Of course I know other people who don't think it's of any particular importance,...
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...Violent Media and Violent Behavior Paula M. Méndez, Megan Roy Miosotis Nieves University of Phoenix BCOM/275 July 23, 2013 Javier Maury-Ortiz Pros and supporting evidence There have been studies to prove that violent movies, games, and television shows can influence violent behavior. Multiple cases have shown that individuals playing video games, especially violent ones, can lead to aggression. Children who tend to play these types of games lose control rather easily, they tend to kick the controller against the floor or throw other various objects when enraged. They also show their frustration by using profanity or lashing out towards others playing the game with them or towards the game itself. Dr. Jordan Grafman at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke conducted a study which showed adolescent boys that were exposed to violent games over a long period of time tended to show aggressive behavior, desensitization, and loss of empathy. Twenty-two boys were chosen to view short clips that show different range of violent from low, mild, and moderate. The ones who were expose to more violent movies, videos, or television shows were the one who were had less empathy. Dr. Grafman concluded that those who were more desensitization were the most likely to have violent behavior and less empathy. There was another study done from 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide which was done by Craig Anderson a professor of psychology at Iowa...
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