Portrait Essay on Georgian Patriarchate Television ,,Ertsulovneba” (2023-2024)

The Documentary film accurately reflects life's reality. In art, it is the most realistic form of depicting reality by its structure. It is documentary filmmaking that can realize the possibilities of mass communication in cinema. At the same time, documentary filmmaking fulfils all the functions of mass media - it is aimed at the educational sphere and is a source of information. The main task of a documentary film is to evoke a sense of reality in the audience. Documentary cinematography has added the documentary film essay to television genres. The film essay is divided into portrait, travel, problem and essays based on real facts and characters. The portrait, or biographical essay, is particularly widespread. Through the image of a real, specific person, it shows us a general social type. The portrait essay is characterized by an essayistic understanding of the narrative along with the image. Its goal is to present to the audience a person who leaves a significant mark in history, showing interesting details of their life. The work aims to study the genre features of the portrait essay in Georgian television media. It discusses the portrait essays of the TV of the Patriarchate of Georgia "Ertsulovneba", according to the characteristics of the documentary film - script, text, image, voice, music, photography and graphic design. It also presents a comparative analysis of the portrait essays of "Ertsulovneba" and the documentary films "Portraits of the Century" by of the Public Broadcaster. The work shows that in the Georgian television media, portrait essays are mainly dedicated to historical figures and contain all the characteristics of documentary cinema. As in "Century Portraits" by of the Public Broadcaster, in the portrait essays of "Ertsulovneba" artistic and documentary pieces are organically combined. This form of the film essay - the portrait essay - occupies an important place in the television program on both channels.