VISUAL CULTURE OF DIRECTING AN AUTHORʾS FILM

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to define the director's toolkit of frame design in the visual culture of the author's film. A comprehensive approach was used in the development of the topic, methods of systematization, comparison, verification, comparative and textual analysis were used. The analytical method and the method of figurative and stylistic analysis in their unity were directed to the consideration of the art history aspect of the problem. The articles and monographs of scientists who studied the peculiarities of the visual culture of screen arts were analyzed. The articles and monographs of scientists who studied the peculiarities of the visual culture of screen arts were analyzed. It has been found that the researchers are inclined to the opinion that the directors of author's films carry out experiments in the field of pictorial form. The relationship and mutual influence of photographic and audiovisual art is considered. It was found that images in screen arts are the result of collective work and have collective authorship. The features of the visual culture of the author's film are traced on the example of the films of Yuriy Illenko. It has been proven that the visual culture of an author's film directly depends on the worldview of the director. The characteristic features of an author's film are identified, the dominance of the attention of the directors-authors to the artists' specific view of the world, the creation of their own subjective picture of the world, the search for their own visual language, and the presentation of the author's screen form is substantiated. The visual culture of the author's film is analyzed and it is shown that the image, frame design is the main carrier of cinematic expressiveness. It is clarified that the system of expressive means and methods of visual culture of the author's film consists of: compositional construction of the shot; dynamics of motion of the film camera; filming angles; assembly steps; sound, light, color solutions; subject-material environment of the frame; mise-en-scеne; frame design. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the director's creativity is investigated in the context of the visual culture of frame design and became the subject of a special study for the first time; the appropriateness of using the system method in studying the features of the author's plastic film language has been proven; a comprehensive analysis was carried out and the features of frame design in the author's film work were revealed.