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Opening Big in Box Office? Trailer Content Can Help
Adarsh Tadimari 1, Naveen Kumar2, Tanaya Guha3,Shrikanth S. Narayanan2
1Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras2Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL),University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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Introduction
The opening weekend is crucial for a movie’s financial success
Movie makers try to maximize revenue in early stages
Promotion via print, web, social media, TV
4% of marketing budget spent on trailers
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Past Work
Researchers predict movie’s success using
Meta data - actor, runtime, genre [Chang & Ki 2005]
Sentiment analysis from language - critics reviews, weblogs[Joshi et al. 2010], [Mishne & Glance 2006]
Social media - twitter chatter before movie’s release [Asur & Huberman 2010]
Google search trends - before movie’s release [Panaligan & Chen 2013]
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Past Work
Researchers predict movie’s success using
Meta data - actor, runtime, genre [Chang & Ki 2005]
Sentiment analysis from language - critics reviews, weblogs[Joshi et al. 2010], [Mishne & Glance 2006]
Social media - twitter chatter before movie’s release [Asur & Huberman 2010]
Google search trends - before movie’s release [Panaligan & Chen 2013]
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Past Work
Researchers predict movie’s success using
Meta data - actor, runtime, genre [Chang & Ki 2005]
Sentiment analysis from language - critics reviews, weblogs[Joshi et al. 2010], [Mishne & Glance 2006]
Social media - twitter chatter before movie’s release [Asur & Huberman 2010]
Google search trends - before movie’s release [Panaligan & Chen 2013]
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Past Work
Researchers predict movie’s success using
Meta data - actor, runtime, genre [Chang & Ki 2005]
Sentiment analysis from language - critics reviews, weblogs[Joshi et al. 2010], [Mishne & Glance 2006]
Social media - twitter chatter before movie’s release [Asur & Huberman 2010]
Google search trends - before movie’s release [Panaligan & Chen 2013]
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Importance of Content
Past work did not use trailers
Trailers are created to invoke viewers’ interest
Can trailer’s content predict movie’s financial success?If yes, to what extent?
Audiovisual features → predict a movie’s opening weekend gross
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Importance of Content
Past work did not use trailers
Trailers are created to invoke viewers’ interest
Can trailer’s content predict movie’s financial success?If yes, to what extent?
Audiovisual features → predict a movie’s opening weekend gross
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Importance of Content
Past work did not use trailers
Trailers are created to invoke viewers’ interest
Can trailer’s content predict movie’s financial success?If yes, to what extent?
Audiovisual features → predict a movie’s opening weekend gross
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Importance of Content
Past work did not use trailers
Trailers are created to invoke viewers’ interest
Can trailer’s content predict movie’s financial success?If yes, to what extent?
Audiovisual features → predict a movie’s opening weekend gross
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Our Database
Budget, ticket price adjusted forinflation.
https://github.com/tadarsh/movie-trailers-dataset
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Our Database
Budget, ticket price adjusted forinflation.
https://github.com/tadarsh/movie-trailers-dataset
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Method Overview
Predict: Opening weekend’s gross ($$)
Obtain:
Metadata features:budget, actor’s experience, genre, MPAA rating, number of screens[chang & ki 2005]
Audio and video features from trailer
Linear regression analysis
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Method Overview
Predict: Opening weekend’s gross ($$)
Obtain:
Metadata features:budget, actor’s experience, genre, MPAA rating, number of screens[chang & ki 2005]
Audio and video features from trailer
Linear regression analysis
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Method Overview
Predict: Opening weekend’s gross ($$)
Obtain:
Metadata features:budget, actor’s experience, genre, MPAA rating, number of screens[chang & ki 2005]
Audio and video features from trailer
Linear regression analysis
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Method Overview
Predict: Opening weekend’s gross ($$)
Obtain:
Metadata features:budget, actor’s experience, genre, MPAA rating, number of screens[chang & ki 2005]
Audio and video features from trailer
Linear regression analysis
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Prediction using Meta Data (replicating [Chang & Ki 2005])
Meta data explains a similar amount of variance as reported earlier.
Movies 2000-2002[Chang & Ki 2005] 2010-2014
Number of movies 431 474
R2 0.617 0.631
Adjusted R2 0.611 0.613
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Observations
Sci-Fi Movie $5.5 million ⇑Thriller Movie -$3.2 million ⇓Budget 0.17 per $ invested ⇑Christmas Release -$7 million ⇓Movie Runtime $100,000 per minute ⇑Screens $5,000 per screen ⇑Sequel $12 million ⇑
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Audio Features
Interspeech09 emotion challenge features [Schuller09]
Designed to capture prosodic, spectral and voice quality features.
Low level descriptors Functionals
ZCR mean
energy standard deviation (std)
F0 kurtosis, skewness
HNR extremes: value, rel.position, range
MFCC 1-12 offset, slope, MSE
384 dimensional features reduced to 50 using PCA.
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Video Features
Intensity histogram
Color histogram (Hue)
Number of shots
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Video Features
Intensity histogram
Color histogram (Hue)
Number of shots
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Video Features
Intensity histogram
Color histogram (Hue)
Number of shots
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Designed Video Features
Overall motion activity
Percentage of close up shots
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Designed Video Features
Overall motion activity
Percentage of close up shots
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Comparison with Other Features
Feature Adjusted R2
Budget 0.47Screens 0.41Sequel 0.12
Audiovisual features 0.11Sci-Fi 0.09
Runtime 0.06Christmas Release 0.05
MPAA Rating 0.05Thriller 0.01
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Prediction using Content
Feature Adjusted R2
Metadata 0.61Audiovisual features 0.11
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Content Improves Prediction
Features Adjusted R2
audiovisual content 0.11
metadata 0.61
metadata + content 0.65
∼6% improvement in explained variance.
outliers: Iron man 3, The hunger games, Alice in wonderland(among the highest grossing movies)
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Content Improves Prediction
Features Adjusted R2
audiovisual content 0.11
metadata 0.61
metadata + content 0.65
∼6% improvement in explained variance.
outliers: Iron man 3, The hunger games, Alice in wonderland(among the highest grossing movies)
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Summary
Studied the contribution of trailer content on a movie’s financialsuccess
Demonstrated that content carries additional information
Created a database of more than 400 movie trailers and associatedmetadata.
Future work: Design audio features, investigate ’hype’
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Thank you
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