Akeelah and the Bee

Film Information

Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her mother (Angela Bassett), her schoolmates, and her coach, Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne). The cast also features Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable, Erica Hubbard, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Sahara Garey, Eddie Steeples, and Tzi Ma.

All information in this section came from Wikipedia.

Clip Information

This clip shows Akeelah, a young Black girl, competing in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Abbrev	Film	Clip Start	Clip Stop	Duration
AkeelahBee	Akeelah and the Bee (2006)	01:42:23.000	01:45:07.000	164

Characteristic	Value
Format	MPEG-4
File Size	62.1 MiB
Duration	164.039
Frame Rate	23.976
Video Width	1920
Video Height	816
Video BitRate	3.0 MB/s
Audio Channels	2
Audio SamplingRate	48000
Audio BitRate	132.3 kB/s

Subtitles

The following wordcloud shows the words used in this clip, scaled by number of occurrences and colored by sentiment (orange = negative, green = positive, grey = neutral or unsure). Note that the words have been stemmed and lemmatized and stopwords have been removed.

The table below shows all subtitles in this clip with the start and stop time of each subtitle’s appearance in seconds.

Start	End	Subtitle
0.000	1.056	Ladies and gentlemen,
1.139	4.226	we are down to the final two championship words.
4.309	9.731	One or both of our spellers will walk away with the first-place trophy.
9.815	11.316	Dylan, you're up.
18.406	19.741	"Logorrhea."
19.825	22.410	May I have the definition, please?
22.494	27.123	Logorrhea is excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.
33.713	35.340	"Logorrhea."
38.051	40.762	L-
40.846	44.474	O-G-
44.558	50.146	O-R-R-
50.230	54.192	H-E-A.
54.276	56.111	"Logorrhea"?
56.194	57.654	Congratulations, Dylan.
57.737	60.574	You've won the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
60.657	64.286	Yes! Yes!
68.623	69.875	Go get 'em.
75.171	76.923	Ladies and gentlemen,
77.007	79.217	please be seated for Akeelah's turn.
80.552	83.513	♫
85.557	87.225	"Pulchritude."
88.393	90.437	"Pulchritude."
96.026	99.321	It's derived from the Latin word pulcher,
99.404	102.240	meaning "beautiful",
102.324	104.701	- isn't it? - That's correct.
104.784	107.162	- P- - U-
107.245	108.663	- L- - C-
108.747	110.165	- H- - R-
110.248	111.583	- I- - T-
111.666	113.084	- U- - D-
113.168	114.252	E.
114.336	115.879	"Pulchritude."
118.924	120.175	Congratulations, Akeelah.
125.597	126.932	That's what I'm talking about!
130.644	132.145	You know that feeling
132.228	133.521	where everything feels right,
133.605	137.817	where you don't have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday,
137.901	140.445	but you feel safe
140.528	142.948	and know you're doing the best you can?
143.031	145.075	There's a word for that feeling.
145.158	147.327	It's called love.
147.410	150.830	L-O-V-E.
150.914	153.583	And it's what I feel for all my family
153.667	157.170	and all my coaches in my neighborhood
157.253	158.880	where I come from,
158.964	162.467	where I learned how to spell.

Holistic Ratings

A total of 81 participants watched this film clip and then provided holistic ratings on how the entire clip made them feel. These holistic ratings were completed using five Positive Affect items (i.e., alert, determined, enthusiastic, excited, inspired) and five Negative Affect items (i.e., afraid, distressed, nervous, scared, upset), each rated on an ordinal scale from 0 to 4. The plot below shows the

Dynamic Ratings

A total of 81 participants watched this film clip and used the CARMA software to provide continuous (i.e., second-by-second) ratings of how it made them feel. These continuous ratings were made on a single emotional valence scale ranging from -4 (very negative) to 4 (very positive).

Time Series

We can plot the distribution of all valence ratings per second of the film clip to get a sense of how its emotional tone changes over time. The solid black line represents the mean of all ratings and the yellow, green, and purple ribbons represent the central 50%, 70%, and 90% of the ratings, respectively.

Inter-Rater Reliability

A Bayesian generalizability study was used to decompose the variance in ratings of this video clip into the following components: timepoint variance (in average ratings of each second, across raters), rater variance (in average ratings from each rater, across seconds), and residual variance (including second-by-rater interactions and measurement error). The lower and upper columns in the table below represent the boundaries of the 95% equal-tail credible interval. Note that we dropped the first 10 seconds of each clip (as rater “warmup” time).

Component	Term	Estimate	Lower	Upper	Percent
Rater	Variance	0.536	0.405	0.758	0.234
Timepoint	Variance	1.220	0.997	1.542	0.533
Residual	Variance	0.532	0.519	0.545	0.233

From these variance components, we can estimate inter-rater reliability of the ratings. There are many formulations of the two-way intraclass correlation (ICC), but the most relevant to our purposes here is the balanced average-measures consistency formulation or ICC(C,k).

Term	Estimate	Lower	Upper	Raters	Error
ICC(C,k)	0.995	0.993	0.996	81	Relative

Below, we can also visualize the posterior distributions of each of these parameters. Values with higher posterior density are more probable.