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137156 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.22772 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2014-05 22 pages eng Williams, Terrance D'Mitri Pon-Barry, Heather Zafarani, Reza Maciejewski, Ross Barrett, The Honors College Computer Science and Engineering Program Text Due to the popularity of the movie industry, a film's opening weekend box-office performance is of great interest not only to movie studios, but to the general public, as well. In hopes of maximizing a film's opening weekend revenue, movie studios invest heavily in pre-release advertisement. The most visible advertisement is the movie trailer, which, in no more than two minutes and thirty seconds, serves as many people's first introduction to a film. The question, however, is how can we be confident that a trailer will succeed in its promotional task, and bring about the audience a studio expects? In this thesis, we use machine learning classification techniques to determine the effectiveness of a movie trailer in the promotion of its namesake. We accomplish this by creating a predictive model that automatically analyzes the audio and visual characteristics of a movie trailer to determine whether or not a film's opening will be successful by earning at least 35% of a film's production budget during its first U.S. box office weekend. Our predictive model performed reasonably well, achieving an accuracy of 68.09% in a binary classification. Accuracy increased to 78.62% when including genre in our predictive model. Movies Machine learning Film Computer Science First Impressions: A Multimodal Analysis of Movie Trailers and Film Success