Abstract
Films often tries to portray or represent historical events and the dominant mode of representation is the pursuit of an authenticity feeling. No matter whether it is a documentary or fiction, the goal is to give the audience an authentic experience about the historical event. This paper will compare two films, one documentary and one fiction, about the 22. July terrorist attack at Utøya in Norway where 69 youths were killed. The two films are “Reconstructing Utøya” (2018) directed by Carl Javer and “Utøya 22nd July” (2018) directed by Erik Poppe. This article will discuss the concept of authenticity in general and investigate which artistic strategies the films use in the search of the authenticity tone.
Highlights
Films often tries to portray or represent historical events and the dominant mode of representation is the pursuit of an authenticity feeling
We have identified three major factors in virtual reality that could contribute to immersive journalism that may potentially lead to greater audience involvement: Place illusion (PI), being in the place, plausible illusion (Psi), taking events as real, and most crucially the transformation of the self, in terms of their body representation into a first-person participant in those events. (La Pena, 2010)
As stated in the introduction I wanted to study how the two films “Utøya 22nd of July” and “Reconstructing Utøya” used different strategy to obtain a feeling of authenticity
Summary
On 22 July 2011, a bomb exploded outside the government buildings in central Oslo. The perpetrator was a Norwegian far-right terrorist. After the bombing, he went to the island of Utøya, just outside Oslo, where the Labour Party’s youth league was holding its summer camp. Disguised as a police officer, he murdered 69 people, mostly teenagers, in the course of 72 minutes
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