Object Sources of Data Method of Collecting Data

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

In this chapter, the writer present object of the study, sources of data, methods of collecting data, and methods of data analysis.

3.1 Object

The object of this study is not only the script of City of Angels film, but also the mimic from dialog of the main character in film.

3.2 Sources of Data

There is more than one kind of data in this final project. The first data is taken from City of Angels film scripts. Here the writer uses sentences as the unit of analysis. the writer also use the mimic from the dialogues of the character in film City of Angels, to find the hidden meaning that cannot be interpreted only from script. This data will be used in the result of the analysis in chapter IV. Then the writer also use data which was taken from references such as books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and sites which related to the topic. For example, the theories of ambition and limitation. This data was used in review of related literature in chapter II.

3.3 Method of Collecting Data

In this thesis, the writer applies qualitative research because the data is in form of written, oral words and mimics. Qualitative research is a research of which the 27 data in the form of written and oral words which are descriptively analyzed Moleong, 1983:3. The idea of qualitative research is to purposefully select informant or document or visual material that will be the best answer for the research question. The writer collected the data from Film Scripts City of Angels and also used the mimic from the dialogues in film City of Angels. As stated by Creswell 1994:148 that data collection procedures in qualitative research involve four basic types: observation, interviews, documents and visual images. In this study, the writer use document and visual images as basic type in data collection. The method of collecting data steps in this study involves: 1 Finding City of Angels film scripts from the Internet. And also the video compact disc of City of Angels film. 2 Reading the film scripts and watches the film. In order to understand the content and details of the film. 3 After reading the scripts and watching the film, the writer identifies the data using steps, first of all the writer identifies the film scripts by underlining and remarking the sentences, which have correlation with the statement of problem. Besides underlining, the writer wills also numbering system. Besides the film scripts data, the writer uses the video as backup data. The writer identifies the data by watching the video and then using pause to understand the dialog and the mimic that show the character psychology that cannot be found in the film scripts. 28 4 Then the writer is inventorying the sentences, words, clauses, phrases, dialogues, explicit meanings, implicit meanings and mimics of the data. 5 Classifying the data into two types, the first is classifying the data that show the existence of the ambition of men’s rivalry of the main character. And the second is classifying the data that reflecting the limitation of men’s rivalry of the main character.

3.4 Method of Data Analysis