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Multiple Regression Modeling of the Emotional Content of Film and Music

Authors: Parke, Rob; Chew, Elaine; Kyriakakis, Chris

AES Convention 123 · Paper 7173 · October 2007

Abstract

Our research seeks to model the effect of music on the perceived emotional content of film media. We used participants’ ratings of the emotional content of film-alone, music-alone, and film-music pairings for a collection of emotionally neutral film clips and emotionally provocative music segments. Mapping the results onto a three-dimensional emotion space, we observed a strong relationship between the ratings of the film- and music-alone clips, and those of the film-music pairs. Previously, we modeled the ratings in each dimension independently. We now develop models, using stepwise regression, to describe the film-music ratings using quadratic terms, and based on all dimensions simultaneously. We demonstrate that while linear-terms are sufficient for single emotion dimension models, regression models that consider multiple emotion dimensions yield better results.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 123
AES Convention
123
Paper number
7173
Publication date
October 6, 2007
Session subject
Perception
Affiliation
University of Southern California (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper