The study focuses on the development of semantic processing in children through the lens of the Disney animated movie “inside out” by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen. Semantic processing is a basic ...aspect of human knowledge of language processing that enables to extract meaning from the words and to comprehend the intended information conveyed by others. The movie “Inside Out” depicts the story of an 11-year-old girl named Riley and the personification of her emotion Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust as they navigate her life experiences. By analyzing the movie’s plot, characters and dialogues, the study investigates (1) how children’s semantic processing develops over time, (2) how it relates to the ability to understand abstract concepts and how it can impact children’s emotional development. (3) What role do metaphors and analogies play in the semantic development of children depicted in the movie. The goals of this study are to investigate the content, characters, and themes of the movie, to analyze the use of metaphors and analogies in the movie and to explore the relationship between the development of semantic processing and children's emotional advancement. The present study used mixed method to provide a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon. The study targeted two different age groups i.e. 5-8 years and 9-12 years to calculate the impact of age on the development of semantic processing. The findings indicate that the movie “Inside Out” successfully engaged the children in reflecting on and succussing their understanding of emotions. Participants demonstrated and enhanced awareness of the importance and complexity of emotions. Also, it provides insight into how animated movies can be used as a tool to promote semantic development in children’s emotional advancement and inform the development of educational materials that can facilitate semantic processing in children.
High concentrations of inorganic arsenic in groundwater for human consumption is a worldwide common problem. Particularly, the determination of As(III) becomes important, since this species is more ...toxic than organic, pentavalent and elemental arsenic forms. In this work, a 3D-printed device that included a 24-well microplate was developed to perform the colourimetric kinetic determination of arsenic (III) by digital movie analysis. A smartphone camera attached to the device was used to take the movie during the process where As(III) inhibited the decolourization of methyl orange. The movie images were subsequently transformed from RGB to YIQ space to obtain a new analytical parameter called “d”, which was related to the chrominance of the image. Then, this parameter allowed the determination of the inhibition time of reaction (tin), which was linearly correlated with the concentration of As(III). A linear calibration curve (R = 0.9995) in the range from 5 μg L−1 to 200 μg L−1 was obtained. The method was precise (RSD = 1.2%), and the limits of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ) were 1.47 μg L−1 and 4.44 μg L−1, respectively. These values were lower than the limit established by the World Health Organization for total arsenic in drinking water (10 μg L−1). The accuracy of the method was assessed by a recovery study with optimal results (94.3%–104.0%). Additionally, the Analytical GREEnness metric approach was applied, obtaining a score 1.7 times higher than previously published works. The method is simple, portable and low-cost, being in compliance with various principles of green analytical chemistry.
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•A novel parameter based on image chrominance was employed as an analytical signal.•The low-cost device allowed the simultaneous analysis of 24 samples.•The LOD and LOQ were lower than the limits established by WHO for arsenic.•The method was 1.7 times greener than previously published works.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the psychotherapy approaches that has been proven effective in the treatment of many mental problems and the effectiveness of which has been studied the ...most. The aim of this research is to examine the Underground film, which received the best film award at Osian's Cinefan Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival, within the framework of CIS. In the film, the discourse and behavior of Muharrem and the other actors, who have anger control problems and existential problems, have been analyzed in terms of the concepts and opinions of CIS. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in this study. In the study, a large number of examples related to the basic concepts and assumptions of CBT such as cognitive structure, ABC model, cognitive distortions were identified and explained. It is thought that the study and embodiment of the theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the CBT through film analysis, which will be performed on different topics, will contribute to professional professionals working in the field of mental health and people receiving education.
•Weighted fusion of psychological cues for movie summarization.•Fusion of beauty, remembrance, information, and emotions to represent a single shot.•Integration of deep features and Self Organizing ...Map to identify main characters.•Novel criteria for evaluation by comparing summaries with official trailers.
Due to recent advances in the film industry, the production of movies has grown exponentially, which has led to challenges in what is referred to as discoverability: given the overwhelming number of choices, choosing which film to watch has become a tedious task for audiences. Movie summarization (MS) could help, as it presents the central theme of the movie in a compact format and makes browsing more efficient for the audience. In this paper, we present an automatic MS framework coined as ‘QuickLook’, which identifies the leading characters and fuses multiple cues extracted from a movie. Firstly, the movie data is preprocessed for its division into scenes, followed by shot segmentation. Secondly, the leading characters in each segmented scene are determined. Next, four visual cues that capture the film's scenic beauty, memorability, informativeness and emotional resonance are extracted from shots containing the leading characters. These extracted features are then intelligently fused based on the assignment of different weights; shots with a fusion score above a certain threshold are selected for the final summary. The proposed MS framework is assessed by comparison with official trailers from ten Hollywood movies, providing a novel baseline for future fair comparison in the MS literature. The proposed framework is shown to outperform other state-of-the-art MS methods in terms of enjoyability and informativeness.
The analysis of inherent structures of movies plays an important role in studying stylistic devices and specific, content-related questions. Examples are the analysis of personal constellations in ...movie scenes, dialogue-based content analysis, or the investigation of image-based features. We provide a visual analytics approach that supports the analytical reasoning process to derive higher level insights about the content on a semantic level. Combining automatic methods for semantic scene analysis based on script and subtitle text, we perform a low-level analysis of the data automatically. Our approach features an interactive visualization that allows a multilayer interpretation of descriptive features to characterize movie content. For semantic analysis, we extract scene information from movie scripts and match them with the corresponding subtitles. With text- and image-based query techniques, we facilitate an interactive comparison of different movie scenes on an image and on a semantic level. We demonstrate how our approach can be applied for content analysis on a popular Hollywood movie.
Movie data has a prominent role in the exponential growth of multimedia data over the Internet, and its analysis has become a hot topic with computer vision. The initial step towards movie analysis ...is scene segmentation. In this article, we investigated this problem through a novel intelligent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based three folded framework. The first fold segments the input movie into shots, the second fold detects objects in the segmented shots and the third fold performs object-based shots matching for detecting scene boundaries. Texture and shape features are fused for shots segmentation, and each shot is represented by a set of detected objects acquired from a light-weight CNN model. Finally, we apply set theory with the sliding window–based approach to integrate the same shots to decide scene boundaries. The experimental evaluation indicates that our proposed approach outran the existing movie scene segmentation approaches.
This study aims to determine the contribution of discussing movies as an active learning method on health management students' learning of health and management concepts. Students studying health ...management watched four movies containing many elements related to "health" and "management" in a month. After each movie, the analysis of the movie was carried out. In the study, four different student groups with similar qualifications were formed. The first group did not watch the movies, the second group only watched the movies, the third group watched the movies and discussed within the group, the fourth group watched the movies and discussed with the lecturer. The research population comprises the senior undergraduate Health Management Department students. At the end of the study, all participants took an exam containing the key concepts related to the movies. In addition, the satisfaction levels of students in relation to learning with movies were also measured. According to the results of the evaluation exam prepared for key concepts, a significant difference was found between the group means (p = 0.016). Accordingly, the mean (x = 71.32) of the fourth group, watching the movies and discussing with the lecturer, was found to be higher than the other groups. It was seen that watching movies containing key concepts in the field of health and management and discussing with the lecturer contributed to the cognitive and cultural levels of the students.
•There are movies that stage concepts in the field of health and management.•Watching these movies and discussing them with the lecturer contributes to the development of the students.•Students think that learning with movie analysis is a fun, catchy and effective learning method.
Video summarization techniques aim at condensing a full-length video to a significantly shortened version that still preserves the major semantic content of the original video. Movie summarization, ...being a special class of video summarization, is particularly challenging since a large variety of movie scenarios and film styles complicate the problem. In this paper, we propose a two-stage scene-based movie summarization method based on mining the relationship between role-communities since the role-communities in earlier scenes are usually used to develop the role relationship in later scenes. In the analysis stage, we construct a social network to characterize the interactions between role-communities. As a result, the social power of each role-community is evaluated by the community's centrality value and the role communities are clustered into relevant groups based on the centrality values. In the summarization stage, a set of feasible summary combinations of scenes is identified and an information-rich summary is selected from these candidates based on social power preservation. Our evaluation results show that in at most test cases the proposed method achieves better subjective performance than attention-based and role-based summarization methods in terms of semantic content preservation for a movie summary.
Movies have been everybody s favorite across all ages. Some movies are not suitable for certain ages and the parents assistance is needed during the watching movie process so that they can show the ...morals conceived in the movie. This study tries to shed lights on the elements contained in a movie entitled Sense and Sensibility , a movie made based on a novel by Jane Austen. This study was carried out in qualitative approach using visual feature analysis technique. The object of this study was the movie with the duration of 140 minutes. The data obtained were then classified based on its elements such as realism, local color, narratives, and symbolism. The result portrayed that the realism given in this movie is the condition of a noble family who had lost all of their wealth and life had been becoming crude. The local color depicts the social status in the mid-eighteenth century. The story was narrated in the linear plot and finally, the symbolism in this movie exposed much about the calming and melancholic nature of Devonshire.
The aim of this study was to analyze the movie "Hachiko: A Dog's Story" in terms of empathy and solidarity with animals. For this purpose, the scenes in the movie were interpreted on the basis of ...empathic reactions towards animals (cognitive and affective; self/other-oriented) and solidarity with animals (emotions and behaviors such as attachment, belonging, intimacy, and cooperation). The movie is about the attachment between a dog and a human, and it encourages the viewers to understand this attachment. In order for this to happen, audiences should be able to empathize with the protagonist of the movie, Hachi. Through the analysis of the movie, it becomes clear that empathy with animals is depicted in scenes where efforts are made to understand the protagonist's fear, joy, or expectations (self/other-oriented cognitive empathic responses) as well as in scenes where the desire to do something for the protagonist is shown (other-oriented emotional empathic responses). Solidarity with animals is depicted in scenes that include emotions and behaviors such as sharing (time, happiness, sorrow, “bread”), support (helping, assuming care, etc.), and intimacy (desire to be together). Additionally, the movie directs viewers towards a dog's emotions such as joy, loyalty, sorrow, separation, and longing in many scenes.
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