Just like two weeks ago, an audience watched an environmental documentary and answered a couple of questions after they finished watching.
The audience is upwards from 20 years, from different countries in Europe, with different backgrounds and genders. The same audience will watch all four films which I introduced in the second entry.
Below are the results of the second weeks film.
The results shall help documentary filmmakers reach their audience better and get greater results in spreading their message.
How did the audience perceive an inconvenient sequel?
After the participators watched the film they filled out a questionnaire. I did go through the answered questionnaires and summarized the answers, the results are shown below.
All viewers stated that they were interested in the topic and had already informed themselves about this topic.
What they liked about the film:
- relatable data
- well rounded
- good facts
- gives a bit hope
What they did not like about the film:
- too much self promotion
- american documentary style/ too staged
- not very trustworthy because the main protagonist is a politician
Did they think the topic was well presented?
30 % of the viewers thought that the topic was one-sided and mainly what Al Gore wants people to see.
Did they feel a connection to somebody?
50% did feel a connection to Al Gore, but not straight from the start. The other half did not feel a connection to anybody.
Has anything in the film moved them or stayed in their mind, if so what?
- the Paris climate summit talk from Indias president
- the flooding scene where a woman had to be saved
- the catastrophes from the climate change
- the melting glacier caps
- the involvement of big companies in the climate catastrophe
- that environmental problems hit the poor the hardest
What message did they take from the film?
- that climate change is a largely man made problem
- that nothing essential has been done about it yet
- that every single human can help to save the environment
- that a big part of climate change is due to what giant companies do and/ or not do
Everybody was aware of what climate change means for us, everybody thought that there is something we can do to help with the problem.
These were the results of last weeks film, this weeks film is going to be cowspiracy , about its results I am going to write next week. After I have gathered all the results of all four films, I am going to write the first conclusion.
