First aired April 2nd on Channel 5 at 8pm.
It tells the story of the Norway bombing and the following massacre on an island called Utoya conducted by Anders Behring Breivik on July 22nd 201 in which he killed 75 people: 8 from the blast and 69 on the island.
Below are my notes on watching the documentary.
- There were several on location shots of the government building that was bombed and on Utoya. In fact one interview from a survivor was conducted on the island.
- Constant cutaways to relevant things.
- Interview with a criminal psychologist.
- The interviewees were positioned on different sides of the frame.
- Archive footage of the news covering the shootings on Utoya.
- Voice-over of interviewees over footage
- There was a recap after each ad break on what had happened so far.
- Photo of Anders Breivik with a ticking clock graphic behind it. Appears several times with different images.
- Narrator mentions that Norway has one of the lowest murder rates in the world.
- No questions heard just answers.
- Timeline method of telling story. "15:18 pm".
- Every so often it suddenly flashes into killers' history, his life as a child and growing up.
- Lots of amateur footage shown.
- Mentions killer did online gaming and visited extreme websites narrator: "He would turn his violent video gaming into real life" seems like it's trying to find a blame for it, a possible reason. Instead of giving us facts and the story, it also tries to subtly solve it at the same time.
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