Keywords
television journalism
journalistic image
communications in a siege of the city
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Abstract
Introduction. Coverage of war through video recording of facts and events, eyewitness testimonies, including those of victims and survivors, is an important tool for attracting the attention of the audience. The combination of a publicistic image and a proof picture, factual basis, expressive and convincing characters helps to immerse the viewer in the reality of a certain period, to feel like an accomplice to the event, an interlocutor, and to be imbued with compassion, in particular, this applies to Mariupol under the siege.
The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of television publicism and documentary in the context of covering the siege of Mariupol during the war.
The object of the study is documentaries and publicistic television essays about the siege of Mariupol in the Russian-Ukrainian war, which were broadcast from March 2022 to June 2023. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of Ukrainian television publicism and documentary in covering the tragedy of a city under siege, using the example of Mariupol.
Research methods. To study the peculiarities of documentaries and television publicism, the researchers used monitoring to find and systematise documentaries and TV stories from March 2022 to June 2023. The main films about the siege of Mariupol were examined using the descriptive method, and the features, techniques and tools used in documentaries and journalistic films were compared using the comparative method.
Results. The documentaries about the siege of Mariupol include footage from social media, journalists and photographers who took their archives, aerial footage, etc. In some stories, footage taken by the occupiers was used, but the footage was verified and used in the films after being checked for authenticity.
Conclusions. Thus, the documentaries use creative publicistic tools that helped to connect several stories: quotes from an eyewitness diary, drawing a picture of Mariupol, and getting a tattoo with the inscription Mariupol. The image of the author is embodied with the help of a narrator, for example, the city “I am Mariupol”, the author of the diary, a witness, and the journalist himself, who is a Mariupol resident.
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