Intense Pacing and Negative Imagery Detract from Enjoyment for Some Viewers
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Answers for the multiple choice question: "How much did you enjoy watching the BBC advertisement? Please tell me using the scale from 1 to 5."
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“Hi. I don't know if that advert made us feel slightly negative and quite sort of tense and a bit anxious and angry. I know, like, a lot of people don't trust the BBC. Hasn't got a very good reputation anymore, especially on news telling, and telling the truth about what's going on in the world. It felt quite threatening in a way with the language used about, you know, we will find you and things like that. It's quite quite aggressive in the tone, I guess. Yeah. It doesn't make us feel good watching this, so I wouldn't really want to watch it again. The things that stood out, it was all like negative, negative news, scary news, the kind of stuff that I avoid watching. I don't really like watching the news because it's negative. It gives us anxiety. So, personally, I would avoid it.”
“Okay. Waiting for you. Yeah. To put it simply, I don't like the ad. It makes me feel very stressed. Also, it's everything about negativity, nothing about positive. So that means that news are about wars, about killings, about bloodshed, and all these things. So zero zero I mean, is is a zero out of 10 for me. It's like, really don't like it. I really feel negative. And, also, I will never spend one minute and a half to watch it. After the five seconds, I will say bye bye. It's really something negative, and it's really something that I don't want to watch ever again. Hope I'd make it clear.”
“It was the scenes of war, crime, terror, stuff about, like, conspiracy, COVID, the wars. Yeah. It was just really negative, and it's stuff that obviously happens in the world, but I don't like to see it. And it brings up a lot of feelings and images, which are threatening the threat threatening the people's lives. These are real people's lives that are being taken, and it's not nice.”