Genre Features of the Film Essay in the Context of Musical Expressiveness.
Background. Synthetic cinema nature assumes the borrowing of genre features from different arts. Based on this, there are certain difficulties in determining the boundaries of a genre. The expressive means of the cinematographic language has a similar composite structure. As a result of this, interpretations can be made with the help of scientific developments in other arts, in particular music. The essay is one of the leading genres of cinema art. No wonder, that it was continuously interesting for researchers in television and documentary films. Combining the signs of different styles and methods of reflection, the essay adopts the features of the arts which are combined in the cinema. The connection between the musical and cinema expres-siveness have not been studied enough. This paper deals with the researching of the expressive elements of audiovisual essay and musical language. The novelty of the article is in generalization of expressive means, which are used in screen essays, and theirs connection with the musical features.Objectives. The aim of this article is to explain how the formation process of audiovisual essay took place during its his-torical evolution and how the screen essay was separating from literary one, acquir-ing its own features. The influence of musical elements on the organization of visual cinematic expression, its meaning and semantics, the screen poetic language are re-vealed in this study. Methods. This study uses historical and comparative analysis research methodology. For the purpose of research effectiveness, the integrated ap-proach was used. Results. The study revealed the special connection between the audiovisual essay features and musical expressiveness, which can be explained by temporal nature and associative-imaginary features and by the use of poetic language. The essay is a leading genre of documentary cinema and the phenomenon of artistic journalism. The main essay method of reflecting the reality is the description of a true story through the original author’s view. The results of this study indicate that audiovisual essay has its own different expressive features. Despite the fact that the roots of this genre are in the literature, a screen essay differs by a multi-vector artistic interpretation. That’s why the principle of description and figurative subjective reflec-tion extends to all expressive elements. At the same time, the sound-visual expressive complex of screen content tends to a deeper, peculiar to music, emotional influence, as opposed to abstract-logical verbal expression. In other words, the author’s posi-tion is manifested in the selection of sound and visual means of expression, reflection angles. The essay’s author as well as a composer searches his own intonation in the interpretation of the subject, which is reflected in the tonality of the image, the color and the color range. Consequently, the intonation in the essay becomes a direct reflection of the author’s feelings and his relation to the subject of cinema-narrative. Similar to the theme of a musical work a certain author’s idea acts as the organizer of the composition and source of development. The style of utterance and the manner the author describes the story (ironic, excited or distanced, etc.) will be common in music and on the screen. Attention to detail in the essay’s story is associated with musical nuances. The rhythm of the essay which is formed by the expansion of the author’s thought and the argument in favor of the main idea become an indicator of the artistic position and the author’s individuality. The principle of alternating contrast and repetition in conjunction with a temp and a rhythm form a sound and visual intonation that embodies the artistic image. Conclusions. The results of the study suggest a special closeness of the screen and musical poetry, which is related to the temporal nature of both arts, attention to the emotional-figurative interpretation of reality, the presence of common elements of artis-tic expression, such as rhythm, style, intonation, angle, and others. It is worth conside-ring that this connection manifests itself in the artistic and poetic genres of audiovisual works, where the documentary-journalistic essay occupies a leading place. The relation-ship between the elements of screen expressiveness and musical poetics is explored through categories of intonation, rhythm, style and viewing angle. Synesthetic specifi-city of screen creativity in its focus on multimedia perception of audiovisual work, where music and its expressiveness are projected to other artistic components, is studied on the example of the essay genre. The formation of a fundamentally new quality in the process of merging individual elements of the screen language into an integral artistic expressive complex is substantiated in the study.