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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
Method of investigation is the rule to investigate data from the object of the study. This chapter presents the method of the investigation. First, the writer took the
film entitled Notebook as the object of her study and then analyzed the social class inequality that happened in this film.
3.1 Object of the Study
The object of the study is the film entitled Notebook directed by Nick Cassavetes. It is about two young lovers named Allie Hamilton from upper class and Noah
Calhoun from lower class. It was released by New Line Cinema in 2005.
3.2 Type of Data
The type of the data in this analysis is descriptive qualitative. It means that the forms of data can be words, phrases, clauses, idioms, dialogues, and hidden
meanings that are found in the movie.
3.3 Procedure of Collecting Data
There are two kinds of data those are used in this analysis. The first is the primary data. It is data from which the main data of the analysis were taken, that is the
video and the script of the film. The data were in the forms of dialogues and
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expressions presented by the characters in the film. These data were analyzed in chapter four. The second is secondary data which were taken from books,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, and internet. This data related to the topic and it involves the theory of sociology, film, social class, divisions of class. The data
presented in chapter two.
3.4 Procedure of Analyzing Data
The procedure of analyzing data in this study is divided into several steps. They are:
1 Watching the movie
The first steps are watching the movie and reading the movie script. Watching the film in several times is necessary to understand the content of the story and to get
deeper ideas which were related to the movie. The writer watched the movie to find out any dialogues or gesture
description that could be determined as the supporting data in analyzing the movie. The movie script was read in order to understand the whole content to find
out the hidden meanings of the story.
2 Identifying
The second step is identifying. This is the process of separating the data and non- data. In identifying the data, the writer used some ways in order to make the
identified data clearer. It was done by marking, underlining, and numbering.
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3 Selecting
The third step is selecting the data. This step is selecting the data from the identified data. The selected data are the most relevant data related to the topic.
Then, the relevant data will help the analysis and support the analysis.
4 Reporting
The last step is reporting. In this step, the writer reported the data in the appendices. The appendices will help the readers to find out the overall data
analysis easily.
3.5 Technique of Analyzing Data
