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STA 518 Project Proposal Comments #1

Open lcadagin opened 3 years ago

lcadagin commented 3 years ago

You state that you are interested exploring how "movies made and starring women performed in comparison to those made by and starring men"

How exactly do you plan on defining "performed"? You have listed many metrics that relate to this such as "rating", "gross profit", and "IMDB Score". Are any of these embody "performance" more than the others? Should you take all three into consideration when determining "performance"?

In STA 631 we discussed the statistical challenge of "generalizing from observed measurements to the underlying constructs of Interest" (Regression and Other Stories).

-Luke

LeviRosendall commented 3 years ago

You may want to do some literature review to see what the best way to define performance is for movies.

simonsab commented 3 years ago

I really like that your research question is concise. That will allow you to have a clear goal as you do the exploratory analysis and think of additional questions to pull out of the data. I think that setting up the standards for what you are comparing will help. ie Defining "performance" but also what you consider a starring role. As previously mentioned, you can probably do some research on how these things would be defined in the industry.

arepesh commented 3 years ago

This is a really interesting study. I will be interested to see if there trend has been toward more women being in those leading roles. I wonder if you would be able to look at inclusivity in general to see if movies are trending toward much more inclusivity. I will be interested to see your results.

coourtneyrose commented 3 years ago

How can you scrape a website using R? I would love to see your code when you're done to see the process. Otherwise, this seems like such an important topic that will make a great project. I would also be interested in how you differentiate between men and women starring roles, would screen time be a good measure? I'm just thinking of a movie like 50 first dates, because I could see Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler both be considered the starring role. Maybe these things are decided before the movie and are obvious, I'm not super knowledgeable about the making of movies. Either way, good luck!

mahmisab commented 3 years ago

Yes, it'd be a good idea to come up with or research a criteria to define performance. You could also look at how many movies made by and starring women won awards.

elaynast commented 3 years ago

I love this idea and it seems like you have a good grasp on what you want done. The only thing I could really suggest is that if you do plan to make a website or write-up with your results, you could put another section as to why the movies performed the way they did that year. It could be due to social movements or something else, but it's something to look in to!

nash-meg commented 3 years ago

I like your project Ashley! I like the suggestions other people made about defining performance or how many movies won awards. You could also expand your research to see what budget these movies were allocated compared to how much money goes to male dominated movies, or how much money women actors/directors make versus men (I'm not sure if this data is actually available anywhere though)

lindsaybandyk commented 3 years ago

i think this is a really cool idea! I do think that producing and directing seems to be a male dominated industry in general (sadly) so i think that could be something to consider when casting where males seem less likely to give females lead roles/cast women? seems like there could be a correlation there! I also think the comment speaking about the budget would be interesting too, or even the gross profit from the female roles, also the wage gap HELLO...BULLSHIT.