Drama Assignment

Name : Yuni Prihartanti

NIM : A320080003

Class : B

DRAMA ASSIGNMENT

1. Structural Element

1. Narrative Element

1. Character and Characterization

Based on Bordwell and Thompson, 1990:58) the personality of characters is the expression of face, body posture, and also their clothing. The characters can involve attitudes, skills, preferences, psychological drives, details of dress and appearance, and any other specific quality the film creates for a character. The action in dramas in which the character’s actions are primarily driven by people and events that are external to the character, often sacrifice characterization for the sake of the story complications and speed (Douglass and Harnden, 1996:95-96). Character is a person created by the director who acted in some drama.

In “The Lesson” has three characters; the first is the major character is the professor aged 50-60. He is a little old man with a little white beard. He wears pince-nez, a black skull cap, a long black shoolmaster’s coat, trousers and shoes of black tie. Excessively polite, very timid, his voice deadened by his timidity, very proper, very much the teacher. The other characters is the young pupil aged 18, wears a gray student’s smock, a small white collar, and carries a student’s satchel under her arm. The last character is maid aged 45-50, red-faced, and wears a peasant woman’s cap.

The characterization of the professor looks intelligent, smart but he can be mad if his emotion had provoked. The young pupil characterization is diligent, discipline, intelligent, obedient student but finally she is not too smart and difficult to teach. The maid characterization is obeying the professor order but sometimes she does not listen. She is always hided the professor’s crime until 39 cases and add the pupil becomes 40 murder cases.

b. Plot

The term that shows the events of the movie start from beginning until the ending is called plot. (Bordwell and Thompson, 1990:57)

1. The Beginning

The Lesson begins in apartment in the office of the old professor in the morning with the bell is ringing and there was standing a pupil to get the professor’s lesson.

2. The Middle

The lesson shows the conflict between the professor and the pupil with different opinion. Then the climax is professor killed the pupil with knife.

3. The End

The maid helps the professor to clean up the murderer area and keep the crime and pretend to look it was nothing happen.

c. Setting

The setting of place of “The Lesson” starts in the office of the old professor, which also serves as a dining room. To the left, the door opens onto the apartment stairs; upstage, to the right, another door opens onto a corridor of the apartment. Upstage, a little left of center, a window, not very large, with plain curtains; on the outside sill of the window are ordinary potted plants. The low buildings with red roofs of small town can be seen in the distance. The sky is grayish-blue. On the right stands a provincial buffet. The table doubles as a desk, it stands at stage center. There are three chairs around the table, and two more stand on each side of the window. Light-colored wallpaper, some shelves with books.

The setting of time is in the morning and the situation or atmosphere is quiet.

d. Point of View

The professor is the major character and he is the first person and the second person is the pupil and the maid.

e. Theme

The basic idea of “the lesson” is the professor get mad after his emotion had provoked by situation like his conflict with his pupil until he killed his pupil.

2. Technical Element
   1. Casting

It was difficult to analyze casting, because the story still in script.

1. Mise en-Scene

1. Set Dressing and Props

The set dressing and props is a window, not very large, with plain curtains; on the outside sill of the window are ordinary potted plants. On the right stands a provincial buffet. The table doubles as a desk, it stands at stage center. There are three chairs around the table, and two more stand on each side of the window. Light-colored wallpaper, some shelves with books.

2. Costumes and Make-up

First, the professor aged 50-60 (make up set like the man in that age). He is a little old man with a little white beard. He wears pince-nez, a black skull cap, a long black shoolmaster’s coat, trousers and shoes of black tie, it was the set of costumes. Second, the young pupil aged 18 (set of make up like a teenager as usual in 18 years old), wears a gray student’s smock, a small white collar, and carries a student’s satchel under her arm, it was the set of costumes. The third, the maid aged 45-50, red-faced (the set of make up), and wears a peasant woman’s cap (the set of costumes).

3. Lighting

There is difficult to analyze the lighting, but in this script we can show there is has natural lighting like the sunshine in the morning.

3. Cinematography

It was difficult to analyze the cinematography because it told about the shot of the scene of drama when it had performance, such as Photographic Qualities of Shot, Framing of Shot, and The Duration of Shot.

4. Sound

It also difficult to analyze the sound of this drama, but the suitable sound to this drama is sad song or dramatic sound.

5. Editing

It was difficult to analyze the editing because has relation with selection process and camera takes in drama.

2. Conclusion

The conclusion of the comic drama of “The Lesson” is the man faced to society or man to society. The reason is the pupil has forced by her parents to be a doctor. This phenomena comes from the culture of society which is someone must raise the highest dream in their live. So, the pupil takes lesson to professor to raise her dreams to be a doctor. But, in fact she was killed by professor who get mad after his emotion had provoked.