Moreover, most trailer shots (30.33%) are selected from the middle of the movie (i.e., Progress) as well as from the beginning (i.e., 16.62% and 25.45% for “Setup” and “New Situation”, respectively). Specifically, we compute the absolute sentiment intensity (i.e., regardless of positive/negative polarity) per shot in the (true) trailers. In accordance with our experimental setup, we again map trailer shots to movie shots based on visual similarity and consider the corresponding sentiment scores predicted by our network. We then segment the trailer into three equal sections and compute the average absolute sentiment intensity per section. As expected, on average, the second part is the least intense, whereas the third has the highest sentiment intensity.

Source: New York Times June 07, 2024 10:03 UTC