AUTHOR`S APPROACHES TO DEPICTING THE PROTAGONIST`S CHARACTER THROUGH THE PRINCIPLES OF EXPOSITION IN FEATURE FILMS

Abstract

The article examines the author's approaches to the construction of drama used in the presentation of plot events in the first act of feature films. The main subject of the study is the principles of building exposition in feature films as an author's approach to portraying the protagonist's character. The purpose of the study is to outline the approaches to the construction of the first act of a feature film according to the degree of authenticity of the protagonist's character portrayed by the author. The research methodology is based on the search method (for collecting information on the chosen topic), the deductive method (for identifying certain stylistic features of films and principles of the first act), the comparative method (for identifying the peculiarities of the author's methods of constructing expositions) and the method of generalisation (for writing conclusions). The results and conclusions of the work are the allocation of approaches to the construction of the exposition (first act) depending on the degree of naturalism of the protagonist's character. The author's desire to build the exposition depending on the catalyst problem narrows the range of manifestations of the protagonist's individual characteristics, which creates a certain "artificiality" of the character. In contrast to this approach, authors build characters through the depiction of the protagonist's relationships with other characters or through a detailed depiction of the protagonists' circumstances. These conclusions help to outline an approach to building a naturalistic protagonist character in the first act (exposition) of a feature film and its further development throughout the story.Key words: first act, exposition, feature film style, protagonist character, drama.