SOUND IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ABOUT YAKUT NORTH

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of expressive means in the ethnographic cinema, which is a kind of a documentary. Music and sounds are some of the tools that distinguish a documentary from a feature film. Music and sounds in documentaries not only complement the visual part, but also play a special role. The aim of the research is to reveal the functioning of the sound in a documentary film. In the course of the research, the multifunctionality of the expressive means in the author’s documentary cinematography has been revealed. Atmospheric sounds have been classified as natural and man-made. These sounds are represented as Yakut onomatopoeic words. Off-screen and source ethnic music enables to enhance the perception of the visual image and reveals such features of the North as a place of cold, silent and at the same time enriched with a variety of original cultures, emotions associated with adherence to homeland, a place of unity of man and nature and a place of nomadic peoples’ cultures. Specially written original music gives a peculiar emotional coloring, conveys the author’s attitude to characters, phenomena, events.