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rick.ca:
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That's an interesting reference. Do you have a way of actually designating such a list? I keep thinking it might be a good idea to use Rating to distinguish people I'm really interested in or otherwise merit special attention. But the idea of manually rating a few thousand out of 25,000 people stops me. I wish there were some way to flag all actors who have a "starring role" in at least one movie in my collection, or which appear multiple times, etc.
--- Quote ---Check out 'Jane Fonda' and tell me the pages aren't organized
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Right. Jane as Barbarella next to recent "event" photos indicates some kind of organization. At least it offers a clear choice. ;)
--- Quote ---...or if I could send multiple streams without overwriting previous streams.
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Right—I didn't think of that. But it wouldn't be so bad if you can only select from one page at a time—especially if you're only looking for one good photo. With that in mind, navigation back to the previous page is also in order.
mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
'a' list was meant alphabetically, but now that you mention it. A number of sites that I want to script have only 'famous' and 'young' celebrities. My thought on this was to use a script to access the filmography...starring roles wouldn't be there, BUT knowing that a person had worked in 20 or 30 ventures over a 5 year period would indicate some sort of success. More so a role in a TV series that runs over several seasons.
Such a script could certainly save the data...got a 'people' field you don't use? I note there is a 'rating' for people in the sort list. A weighted (movies vs TV) list could probably built and scripted pretty quickly. Script access appears to be no problem:
pfRating = 8;
I could see a couple of factors playing a role in a rating system...
Number of movies
Number of TV appearances
Years worked
Whether the role played had a name or not
Sounds like an interesting project. If the logic can be precisely defined, I'd probably be willing to build it.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---If the logic can be precisely defined, I'd probably be willing to build it.
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Add it to your list! ;)
I can imagine a filmography-based analysis producing a meaningful rating. One way would be some sort of scoring system. For example (note I'm assuming relational data, like a movie rating, can be accessed):
Unnamed role in movie: 1 point
Named role in movie: 1 x Rating of movie
Named role in movie in database: 3 x Rating
Series: 1 x # of episodes
Series in database: 3 x # of episodes
Years worked: # years
Then rating = total points/100
But it would be more fun and useful if the weight assigned to each such item could be specified by the user. Then we could experiment to get the most meaningful results. Other than being somewhat amusing, hopefully the rating would be very useful in identifying people we want to spend time hunting for photos or other data for.
One question I suppose we should ask... Is the rating field meant for any particular purpose? Is there a site out there that somehow rates the popularity of actors? Even if there is, I think this would provide a more personally meaningful result. There are many "popular" actors I can't stand. :)
mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
This is part of the work I want to do in order to be able to eliminate people from being searched on sites. If I have a rating system, I can exit the script before any significant access to the site. For example, shareapic.com (currently down) has a couple of hundred 'popular' actresses...5 to 60 galleries, each with 5 to 150 images...many hi-res. There's no point in looking for b-movie people or men there.
One of the things that would be good with such a system, if it works, is that I could pull the rating from the database without any other processing, in order to determine if the script should access a 'popular celeb', 'b-movie' or other specialty site when searching for images. People that don't do ratings will just have a much slower image search. Works for me.
The ability to change parameters is actually, required for me as well since I'll have to 'tune' the routine to be reasonably effective at it's work. I imagine that popularity would also be affected by the timeframe during which a person worked...seen a good Fay Wray movie lately? Possibly some kind of state-dating based on years from current...maybe you lose .01 points for each year from current for each movie / show...with a maximum loss of 50% (another number to play with !!).
Personally, I think I'd rate movies higher than TV...except for current series. The older the series is, the more it stale-dates. I still watch many of the movies from my youth (esp. hammer productions....Christopher Lee, Vincent Price), but I really don't watch the Rifleman, Ed Sullivan, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, etc. Chuck Connors may have been well known in his time, but that time isn't now.
Genre could also be useful. Adult / reality-tv / gameshows (except maybe Vanna) and similar wouldn't rate as well. It could be another sliding parameter in the 'fun with the numbers' part of the equation.
If I build the equation with floating point math, we'll be able to give partial points.
I just did a sort on rating on my database and things changed around, so I'm guessing it's being used somehow. NO PROBLEM. I can read the comments field from the database, add stats to the comments and save it all back again if I need to.
Last thought before I sign off for the night...if you've never been in a top-rated movie can you be a top-rated actor? I think not. If you been in many, you should get bonus points. For example, did you know Edwige Fenech has been in more movies than Robert Deniro?
buah:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on January 19, 2010, 09:14:08 am ---
I can imagine a filmography-based analysis producing a meaningful rating. One way would be some sort of scoring system. For example (note I'm assuming relational data, like a movie rating, can be accessed):
Unnamed role in movie: 1 point
Named role in movie: 1 x Rating of movie
Named role in movie in database: 3 x Rating
Series: 1 x # of episodes
Series in database: 3 x # of episodes
Years worked: # years
Then rating = total points/100
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Awards and Nominations? For me, the most. And/or combined with Awarded and Nominated movies and series they starred in?
Excuse me for interfering , but i don't want to start a new topic, and I just had to ask a question to mgp. Is it possible to change IMPAwards script (if it's already not) so in advance to define whether you want to download normal or xlg images. For xlgs should be set "If 'xlg'=FALSE than 'normal" logic, and for both "If 'xlg'=FALSE AND 'normal'=False than skip if Mode='Silent'".
Cheers and keep up good work.
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