1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A movie theater or movie theatre (also called a cinema, movie house, film house, film theater or picture house) is a venue, usually a building, for viewing movies (films). Most but not all movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Most movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print.
Nigerian film industry had always been making films on celluloid and the films were screened in cinema houses across Nigeria and later released on VHS for various homes. However, the release of the Straight-to-video movie Living in Bondage in 1992 by NEK Video Links owned by Kenneth Nnebue launched the Home video market in Nigeria. Nnebue had an excess number of imported video cassettes which he then used to shoot his first film on a Video Camera. Nollywood exploded into a booming industry in the late ’90s and pushed foreign media off the shelves. It is now an industry marketed all over Africa and the rest of the world. Thus the use of cinemas has a long history and reveals the general acceptance of cinema use. But the seat reservation and management of movies needs to be computerized.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There is a problem of having online access to the booking system of most cinema viewing centers. Tickets may have to be purchased on site and seat booking is not feasible over the internet.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of this study is to
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.5 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
The scope of this work will include the following
1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
This project is limited to the use of scratch cards in accessing the system as online payment processing is expensive to implement.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS/VARIABLES
Web based software/system – this refers to a software accessible over a network such as the internet or intranet (Local Area N