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A Study on Japanese Healing Films from Visual, Sound, and Narrative Aspects

2023· article· en· W4389396905 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications in Humanities Research · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Media and Visual Art
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBeautyAestheticsNarrativeSound designFilmmakingSimplicityCrueltyInnocencePlot (graphics)ArtPsychologyVisual artsSound (geography)LiteratureMovie theaterEpistemologyPsychoanalysisPhilosophyAcoustics

Abstract

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Nowadays, people are increasingly dependent on the media to meet their needs. Healing movie is a kind of film which aims to make the audiences’ emotions be positively affected and to feel satisfied. Previous studies on the birthplace of healing culture, Japan and Japanese healing films have found some formal and thematic characteristics of Japanese healing films. Based on the previous studies, this paper, after an observation and analysis of 50 Japanese healing films, looks at three aspects of filmmaking: visual design, sound design, and plot narrative, summarized the features of Japanese healing films in the production technology that serve to achieve the purpose of healing people’s mood. The results also found recurring thematic elements that have been discussed in previous studies, such as nature worship, simplicity, and innocence. Importantly, this research analyzed through the focus on visual, sound, and narrative aspects that the Japanese healing filmmakers prioritize the preservation of the portrayal of life's simplicity and beauty. They consciously steer away from depicting tragedy, turmoil, and complex societal issues in their films. That is, they are on the one hand trying to restore reality, showing that almost unadorned beauty, while avoiding realistic cruelty.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.053
Threshold uncertainty score0.691

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.414
GPT teacher head0.500
Teacher spread0.086 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it