Background of The Study

11 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

A. Background of The Study

Film is a media in the form of audiovisual that shows the work to all people and getting feedback. The Dictionary of Oxford Learner mentioned that the definition of film is a story, which is recorded as a set of moving pictures to play on television or at the cinema; a roll or sheet of thin flexible plastics is sensitive to light, for use in photography. 1 The French director Robert Bresson puts in a book of An Introduction Film Art is “A film is part of the image are not included in the theatrical version, but they are put into full-frame videos to give a TV shaped picture.” When the script is hammered out, the idea for the film may be radically modified; the script’s presentation of the action may be drastically changed in shooting; and the material that is shot takes on new significance in the process of assembly. 2 There are any films that are adapted from the novel. Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivate work. A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction including journalism, autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays and even other films. From the 1 A S Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learners’s Dictionary of Current English, ed. Jonathan Crowther Oxfrod: Oxford Unioversity Press, 1995, p. 434. 2 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction Seventh Edition Boston: University of Wisconsin, 2004, p. 20, 22. 12 earliest days of cinema, adaptation has been nearly citation needed as common as the development of original screenplays. 3 There have been instances of novelist who have worked from their own screenplays to create novels at nearly the same time as a film. Both Arthur C. Clarke with A Space Odyssey and Graham Greene with The Third Man have worked from their own film ideas to a novel form. Although the novel version of The Third Man was written more to aid in the development of the screenplay than for the purposes of being released as a novel. Both John Sayles and Ingmar Bergman write their film ideas as novels before they begin producing them as films, although neither director has allowed these prose treatments to be published. Notes on a Scandal film is a 2006 Academy Award-nominated British film which is Patrick Marber’s fourth produced screenplay. It is a film adapted from the 2003 novel “Notes on a Scandal” by Zoe Heller. Patrick Marber is an English comedian, a playwright, a director and an actor. Patrick Marber was also sole screenwriter who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Whereas Zoe Heller is an English journalist and novelist. In this film there are some of the main characters, such as Sheba Hart Cate Blanchet, Barbara Covett Judi Dench, Steven Conolly Andrew Simpson, and Richard Eyre Bill Nighy. But, the writer chooses Sheba Hart character as an object of the research. This film tells about an affair between a 3 http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiFilm_adaptation March 11, 2009 13 young art teacher, Sheba Hart and her underage pupils, Steven Connolly which is demolished by Sheba’s colleague teacher, Barbara Covett. It begins when Barbara, a teacher history at a comprehensive school in London meets the new art teacher, Sheba Hart. Barbara feels drawn to Sheba and is happy to find that Sheba maybe the one. Nevertheless, when Barbara discovers Sheba’s affair with Steven Conolly, her student in underage pupils, Barbara confronts her. Then, Sheba asks Barbara not to tell her affair to her family and the school administration until Christmas. Barbara explains that she does not intend to tell as long as Sheba ends the relationship. However, Sheba cannot end her affair with her student until Christmas. Barbara becomes increasingly angry and tells Sheba’s affair to a fellow teacher, Brian. Finally, Brian reports playground rumor to Steven’s mother and head of comprehensive school. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested in analyzing the character of Sheba Hart viewed from the theory of psychology that can be connected with the theory of sexual deviation that refers to Sheba’s pedophilia in film Notes on a Scandal by Patrick Marber.

B. Focus of the Research