Project

Team Members

Ankit Baheti (Github handle: ankitbaheti) Virat Goradia (Github handle: virat02)

Project Description

Our project is to make a social web-based entertainment application that will provide users with customized features in their account. Users can browse the application anonymously, viewing a wide range of movies, with their reviews and ratings as well as now playing and popular movies. He/She can also register to get access to additional features. A user can register as a Fan, a Critic, a Theater Manager and an Advertising Company Recruiter. The fan account allows users to like or dislike a movie, follow their favorite actors, favorite critics and other fans in their social circle. The critic account allows users to review any number of movies, rate any number of movies and recommend movies to their followers. The theater manager account shows the now playing movies as well as upcoming movies which can help them manage and schedule their screenings in their theatres. The advertising company recruiter account allows its users to search for actors based on their popularity scores and genres so that they can recruit them for their company adverts. An Admin can view all tables and has complete access to the database and can apply CRUD operations on them. An anonymous user, who has not registered with the website can browse movies and query about the same, but to gain additional features, he/she has to register as one of the users. A user can be registered with the first name, last name, username, password, email ID, date of birth, addresses and phone numbers, where address and phone can be primary, as chosen. Address include street, city, state, and zip-code. A phone is described by phone number. A fan account consists of description where he/she can write about themselves and their interests. Critic account consists of description field and their website URL. An Advertisement Recruiter account has a description of their company. A Theatre Manager manages one or more theatres where theatres have a name, number of screens and location. Every screen in the theatre can show a movie at a time. A movie consists of name, IMDb ID, overview, poster source, runtime, IMDb rating, release date, revenue and release status as its attributes. A movie can have multiple genres. The recruiter can recruit actors based on their popularity score. An actor can have a name, IMDb ID, date of birth, date of death (none if still alive) and biography. A critic can rate movies as excellent, very good, good, fair and poor.

What API are we using?

The API being used for implementing the project is The Movie Database (TMDb). TMDb provides a lot of information about movies and their cast. It lists information about movie details, poster, release date, runtime, and genre. Also, information like now playing, upcoming, top rated and popular movies are also provided which we are incorporating in our project. The API also provides us the review of any movies along with all the cast of that movie. To know more about the cast, there are different search options and well-defined focused searches like Movie Credit, Cast Description, etc.

To fulfill our use case of Advertisement Company Recruiter, the API provides us with much-needed details for actors such as popularity scores and genres of movies they have acted in, which can help them in searching for actors based on their requirements. A fan can also get recommended movies and similar movies to the movies he/she likes through the application as the API has separate functions to get recommended and similar movies.