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film wins a “film of the Year” from AFI AWARDS, USA 2016 and also “Best Writing, Original Screenplay” from ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 2016.
Throughout the film screenplay, the setting of the film is in Rilley’s head, called “Personality Island”. The journey starts when Joy suddenly appeard and followed by
Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. These five are monitoring Rilley’s life and producing her responses to every situations. This condition pictures how preteen girl
reacts to everything around. The five emotions are being validated by the help of Paul Ekman, a well-known psychologist of emotions, and Dacher Kelther, a professor of
psychology. Indise Out, according to Pete Docter and his team, has functions to find an answer of how emotional life on an eleven-year-old girl will be.
After all, Inside Out film by Pete Docter, is a film that describes how emotions drive a preteen girl. In the film Docter gives clear personage of those emotions as Joy,
Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger, who grapple for control of the mind of preteen girl during the tumult of a move from Minnesota to San Franscisco. Docter
personages each character with its own characterizations. The emotions also have their own struggle to resolve problems.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. The first part is the Object of the Study. In this part, the researcher provides the summary of the film. The next part is the
Approach of the Study. In this part, the researcher elaborates the approach to solved the research problems. The last part is the Method of the Study. It explains more
about the way or steps of accomplishing the objective of this research.
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is a film screenplay of “Inside Out” by Pete Docter. The film produced in 2009 then released in 2015 under the production company of
PIXAR Animations Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. This film is 1 hour and 34 minutes in length and the screenplay itself consists of 130 pages. The screenplay
depicts the characters and its dialogues, setting, and the detail explanations of certain point, such as the details of the setting and the characters’ movements. The script also
gives signs on the dialogues to indicate how the characters speak their dialogues, such as CONT’D, V.O., and S.O..
Inside Out film itself is a 3D animation film of Pete Docter and the story itself PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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comes from Pete Docter personal experiences. Pete Docter has eleven-year-old daughter, Ellie, who is a lot like the character of young Ellie, Up 2009. The active
and hyperactive Ellie has made Pete Docter wander what was going on inside his daughter’s head. The wandering makes Docter start the story of Inside Out film in
2009. In the end of Pete Docter’s idea, this film becomes a real portrayal of how emotions work inside a person’s head, how people perceive the world, how they
express themselves, and how they evoke their responses to others. In making the story, Pete Docter spoke to Paul Ekman - an expert on human
emotions - and Dacher Keltner - the founder of an institution called The Greater Good Science Center. Docter and these two people agree on using five basic
emotions. The two of the five emotions becomes the focus who gives a big impact on Rilley’s life. Joy defines Rilley’s personality and Sadness is the real star in the film
who guides the responses of Rilley towards the changes she is going through.
B. Approach of the Study
In this study, the researcher uses psychological approach. This approach’s function’s is to analyze a person psychologically. By using this approach, the
researcher understands the reasons behind the interpersonal conflict happening between Joy and Sadness . The researcher can also find several ways of Joy solving
