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In groups, students review a list of movie ideas, and select the three most promising. Then, they use movie data to analyze the return on investment for each actor, genre, and director; create three movie posters and write code for an A/B test to select the best performing poster; and write a proposal to pitch the movie idea and poster to a board of investors.
This lesson uses videos to teach critical life and technology skills:
Videos
- In groups, review a list of movie ideas, and select the three most promising.
- Visualize past movie data for distributions of budget and revenue, and the relationship between budget and revenue.
- Using movie data, analyze the return on investment for each actor, genre, and director.
- Select one movie idea using the data analysis.
- Create three movie posters to test with your audience.
- Write code for an A/B test to select the best performing poster.
- Write a proposal to pitch your movie idea and poster to a board of investors.
Life Skills
- Use spreadsheets and other applications to make predictions, solve problems, and draw conclusions.
Technology Skills
- Data visualization: represent data using context appropriate charts and graphs.
- Apply advanced formulas (countif, etc.).
- Organize and manipulate data: Sort, filter, find, add, delete, and number formatting.
