This paper is structured as follows: Section 2 reviews the cinematic and economic foundations. Section 3 decomposes the SRIF into its three pillars. Section 4 provides a formula and scoring methodology. Section 5 applies the SRIF to three case studies. Section 6 discusses limitations and future research.

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