Data and Source of Data Research Instrument Data Collecting Technique

B. Data and Source of Data

The data were collected from the dialogue, visualization, characteristics, and cinematography of Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by watching the films generally and analyzing the details of some important scene. Then, the researcher used postmodern theory as the main source of the theory. Also, the researcher used the internet, some extra videos about the making of the film, and some particular books such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script Newmarket Shooting Script by Charlie Kauffman and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Christoper Grau as the secondary sources of data.

C. Research Instrument

Qualitative research involves the researcher as an instrument. The researcher uses herself as a primary instrument for collecting data. Lincoln and Guba in Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: 188 argue that the best instrument for qualitative naturalistic inquiry is the human, for human instruments are shaped by experience. Moreover, human instruments can respond and adapt to research encounter. As the main instrument, the researcher has several roles of working design, working hypothesis, collecting data, analyzing data, and interpreting data. Finally, the researcher’s role is reporting the findings of the research.

D. Data Collecting Technique

There are several techniques of data collecting in qualitative research. Vanderstoep and Johnston 2009: 189 mention interviewing, observation, autoethnography, ethnographic observation observing people enacting culture, analysis of documents and material culture, and visual analysis e.g. interpretation of mediated text such as films or television program, as technique of data collecting. Then, the object of this research is dialogues, cinematography, plot, and characterization of Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind film, the research uses analysis of documents and material culture as its data collecting technique. Therefore, there are some steps to collect the data as follows. 1. Watching Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2. scrutinizing the cinematography of the film, the dialogue, and the scenes of the film, 3. comparing the cinematography, the dialogue, the scene, and the plot of the film to the concept of postmodern theory and Denzin’s postmodern film theory, 4. making a data sheet based to categorise the data based on the classification, and 5. analyzing and interpreting the data.

E. Data Analysis Technique