한국 독립 다큐멘터리에서의 확장된 목소리 사용 연구

초록

Use of the voice in documentary has been much focused on its function as a signifier. Having begun and developed in a close tie with social movement, this 'verbocentrism' of has been strongly deployed in dominating style of Korean independent documentary. Although they have gone through significant changes by overturning the conventional relationship between the filmmaker and the subject, and giving those who had been excluded from mainstream media the opportunity to speak for themselves, the important issues in Korean documentary have long been 'who' the speakers are and 'what' they say. Since late 2000s, we have been seeing increasing number of documentaries seeking more to create sensory and emotional experience than to disclosure the facts. In the documentaries with this tendency, the dominating position of the voice among the audio-visual elements appear demoted, and non-verbal qualities of the voice such as tone, timbre and nuance are used to the significantly increased extent. This can be interpreted as a respond of documentary to the need for new way of communication under the present sociocultural circumstances as well as a result of cross-genre practice of divers visual arts. This paper illuminates the potential of voice in documentary not only as a signifier but as a sound element through the examples among Korean documentary films made after 2010. It examines how verbocentrism has evolved in Korean documentaries and how it is being challenged recently. The distinctiveness of the recent Korean documentaries in which the voice is used different ways will be studied in terms of style, effect towards the audience, and the connection in the documentary tradition in Korea. It finally examines how different use of voice influences the relation between the filmmaker and the subject during the production and vice versa.

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