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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND

DESIGN

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Session: Monday 4-7pm

Module: Social Psychology (PSY30203)

Lecturer: Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam

Group Members: Darren Loong Chi Yoong [0318029]

Janice Lee Juen Yung [0318695]

Nur Aqilah Syaza [0317731]

William Goh Ming Hann [0317949]

Submission Date: 8th December 2014

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Acknowledgement

First and foremost, we would like to thank our Social Psychology lecturer, Mr. Shankar

for his continuous guidance throughout the semester. We also get to understand the objective of

our assignment and the concepts within the chapters through him.

Next, we would like to thank our friends, Nur Aqilah, William Goh, Darren Loong and

Janice Lee who gave us support and cooperated really well in regards to the video shooting.

Last but not least, we would like to thank Darren Loong for directing the video and also

editing the video. Also, we would like to thank Janice Lee for the writing of the story.

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Table of Content

Topic Page

Acknowledgement 2

Introduction 4

Method 5

Procedure 6

Discussion 7

Plot 8

Script 10

Concepts 17

Reference 18

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Introduction

In this assignment, we are required to create a short video clip that requires at least 5

different concepts that we have learnt throughout the semester in Social Psychology. We are also

required to write a report based on the short video and present our video during class. We are

divided into groups a group of four, which consists of Darren Loong, Janice Lee, Nur Aqilah,

and William Goh. After a short discussion and 2 meetings, we have decided to create a short film

named “The Misunderstanding”. This short film is about a guy who assumed that a girl is a

murderer of her best friend after she has been missing for 2 weeks. After much research and

analysis of our script, the concepts that are found in this short film are confirmation bias,

stonewalling, situational attribution, self-fulfilling prophecy, persuasion and attribution bias.

Lastly, we hope this video will allow students to relate about concepts in Social Psychology in

everyday life.

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Method

Apparatus Used

1. Canon EOS 5D mark II

2. Canon EF 17-40mm f4/L

3. Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L

4. Rubber Glove filled with water

5. Old newspapers

6. Garbage Bag

7. Note books

8. Software: Final Cut Pro X

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Procedure

All of us agreed to come out with a story each and post the story in our WhatsApp chat

group. After that, we will vote for the story we think it is the best to explain the different

concepts. Finally, we decided to choose Janice Lee’s story. Her story is about a guy assume that

his classmate has murdered someone and he thinks it is his classmate’s best friend, Yuna.

After deciding on Janice’s story, we discussed about the theories and concepts that can be

included in the video. After that, Janice wrote the script of the video and the next day, we started

filming. We decided to film the whole video within Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

because all of our members have transportation issues and the only place we can meet is in

campus.

The day we started filming, Janice gave a short brief about her story and the roles that

each of them will play. Also, it took about an hour for the briefing and only started filming after

that. We took two days to film this video and it took about 3 hours per day to film this video.

Later, the video is edited by Darren Loong, using the video editing software, Final Cut

Pro X to upgrade the quality of the video and reduce noise and also adding in subtitles. Lastly,

we divided the report into different parts for each member to complete so it can be done as soon

as possible before the submission date.

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Discussion

28th November 2014 – 2nd December 2014

A story is given by our members each and total there is 4 stories. We voted for the best story.

After that, Janice will create the script, speech, location, time and more. The following week, we

started filming. We also gathered all our data about the concepts that can be found in the story.

3rd December 2014

This afternoon, Janice gave a short brief about the story and also we read our own script. After

that, we started filming till 4pm.

4th December 2014

Filming from 12pm till 3pm. Darren Loong edited the video after 3pm.

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Plot

Gwen (Janice Lee) and Yuna (Nur Aqilah) are best friends in Taylor's University. They

are currently semester 2 students of the Foundation in Natural and Built Environment

programme. They are also quite famous in their course. Gwen and Yuna would always be seen

together. They would eat together, study together and head to class together. Michael (William

Goh), who's best friend is Adam (Darren Loong) thinks that Gwen is a very beautiful girl and

concludes that her personality and attitude is also nice because of her looks. Adam on the other

hand, claims that Michael is making judgements too quickly.

On the same evening, Adam walks towards his car and sees Gwen carrying a black

rubbish bag. As Gwen heads to the rubbish dumpsite to dispose the rubbish, an object which

looks like a hand drops out from the rubbish bag. Adam is shocked about what he saw and he

claims that Gwen might have murdered someone. On the next day, Adam rushes to see Michael

and tells him about what he saw last night. Michael doesn't believe about what Adam said as he

already concluded that Gwen has a very outstanding attitude and is nice to everyone in the

course. Adam was frustrated with Michael's reaction and decides to prove to him by bringing

Michael to the rubbish dumpsite, in which they found nothing there. Michael is annoyed by

Adam's paranoia and warns him not to create stories again.

As days go by, Gwen seems to be alone every day in campus. Adam decides to follow

her actions closely for days and weeks. After two weeks of stalking Gwen's actions, Adam is

even more paranoid as Yuna has been absent since the night where he saw Gwen dragging the

rubbish bag. He persuades Michael again to believe him, which in return, Michael unfriends

Adam because he thinks that he is weird.

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On that same day, Adam decides to confront Gwen for the missing of Yuna. Gwen is

frustrated and angry about Adam's actions because he kept annoying her to make her admit that

she murdered Yuna. As Adam chases after Gwen, they both stumble upon Yuna and learn that

she travelled to Venice for 2 weeks for a vacation.

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Script

Scene 1

Time: Lunch time

Location: Outside Library

Actors: Qila, Janice, William, Darren

*Yuna and Gwen walking out the library. Michael and Adam sitting near the corridor of the

library.

*Yuna and Gwen casually chatting and pass by Michael and Adam.

Michael: Look at those girls there, aren’t they from our course too? The girl wearing the white

shirt, she is so beautiful!

Adam: Yeah, they are from our course. If not mistaken their names are Yuna and Gwen.

Michael: Oooh. I bet her name is Gwen. Even her name suits her looks. Equally beautiful! So

does her personality!

Adam: *weird look* How do you know she is nice?

Michael: Look, she is beautiful, her name is beautiful too, so does her personality and attitude!

Adam: *weirder look* Your sense.. *shakes head*

- SCENE 1 END –

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Scene 2

Time: Evening 5 to 6 pm

Location: Basement Car Park

Actors: Janice (Gwen) and Darren (Adam)

*Gwen with a suspicious look dragging a bag of rubbish bag*

Adam: *walking towards car heading home and saw Gwen*

*A glove dropped out of the rubbish bag and Gwen quickly put it back in*

Adam: *ultra shock face and rub glasses and blink eyes* Is that a hand? Wait, is that Gwen? I

must tell Michael about it!

- SCENE 2 END –

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Scene 3

Time: Morning 8 am

Location: Student Life Center

Actors: Adam and Michael

Adam: *Running towards the direction of Michael in shock* Michael! Guess what? Gwe

murdered someone!!! *not in a calm state.

Michael: *give the wtf look* Calm down, Adam. What are you trying to say? How can she

murder someone in this big area?

Adam: No. I am being serious now! I saw her dragging a big rubbish bag to throw. Suddenly, a

hand falls out of the bag! She must have murdered someone!

Michael: I don’t believe you. The way you say it is just too sarcastic. How can such beautiful girl

do such things like this? Look. She is so nice and friendly to everyone in our course. How can

she?

Adam: Really. You have to believe me. Let’s go check out now.

- SCENE 3 END –

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Scene 4

Time: Evening 12pm

Location: Taylor’s Lakeside rubbish place

Actors: Adam and Michael

Adam: *shocked with empty rubbish bin.* I swear she threw it! And this is the only place where

she can throw her rubbish! Where can it be! *holds Michael* Michael, you have to trust me. I

saw it with my naked eyes!

Michael: *frustrated look* Look, Adam. Be serious. It cannot be true. You are just wasting my

time! One more time and I am going to unfriend you.

Adam: *Shock look* But hey… Hey Michael! MICHAEL!

- SCENE 4 END –

Scene 5

Time: Morning 11 am

Location: Block D level 2 corridor

Actors: Gwen, Adam

*Adam buying snacks from a machine and Gwen passes by. Adam follows where Gwen goes.

Gwen goes to the female toilet but Adam cannot go in.*

- SCENE 5 END –

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Scene 6

Time: 12pm

Location: Classroom 7 in Block E level 3.

Actors: Gwen and Adam.

*Class started at 1pm and Gwen is in the classroom since 12pm. Gwen is doing her homework in

the classroom when Adam suddenly passes by. He took a step backwards to see Gwen again and

walk away*

Scene 7

Time: 2pm

Location: Lift

Actors: Gwen and Adam.

*Gwen enters a lift where Adam is inside. Adam look at her from behind and shakes his head.*

Scene 8

Time: After a lecture

Location: Corridor

Actors: Gwen, Adam and William.

*Gwen rushing out from lecture theatre to somewhere. Adam and William looks at her.

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Adam: Look, William. She is all by herself for weeks already! Where is Yuna? She did not

appear at all for weeks already! What else can still be the reason? Yuna is murdered!

Wiliam: *frustrated look* Adam, get back to yourself! How can someone with such a nice

personality is a murderer? There must be a reason why Yuna is not here for 2 weeks.

Adam: No! How can she…

William: *very frustrated look* Adam! Forget it. I am not going to listen to your nonsense

anymore. You are such a freak! *Walks away and push his shoulder.

*By doing this, William is no longer a friend of Adam.

- SCENE 8 ENDS-

Scene 9

Time: After a lecture

Location: Corridor

Actors: Gwen and Adam.

*Gwen rushing out from lecture theatre to somewhere. Adam grabbed her this time.

Gwen: *shock look* Hey there! You are Adam right? Nice to meet you!

Adam: *angry look* Stop being this fake! You killed Yuna right?

Gwen: *blur look* Uhh… I don’t understand what you are talking.

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Adam: *angrier look* Gosh. Stop being all nice, Yuna. I have been following you for weeks! I

saw you throwing rubbish and a hand drops out of the rubbish bag, and you have been alone for

two weeks. Two weeks now! Tell me, where is Yuna?

Yuna: *shock and wanna escape* I don’t know what you are talking *tries to walk away*

Adam: *grabs her shirt* Answer me! Where is Yuna? I know it. You murder her!

Yuna: *frustrated look* Nonsense. *brush off his hand and walks off.

*Adam continue chasing her*

*Yuna appear walking from a corner of the corridor to meet Gwen and that scene happened.

Yuna: *shock face* Wow. Wow! What is the matter here?

Adam: Oh My.. Yuna! I thought you were murdered!

Gwen: Yuna! Finally you are back!

Adam: Where have you been?

Yuna: I just came back from Venice.

Adam #kantoi

-----END-----

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Concepts

1. Confirmation Bias

Michael believe that all beautiful girls have nice personality. Confirmation bias is shown

because Michael does not believe that Gwen has murdered someone because she is

beautiful and it contradicts the schema he made. Therefore, he ignores it.

2. Stonewalling

This is shown in scene 8. Michael decided not to be friends with Adam anymore. He

thinks that Adam is talking nonsense and it is not even making sense. Michael could not

stand with his words anymore.

3. Situational Attribution

Adam has situational attributions because he thinks that Yuna has been murdered but she

actually went on a vacation to Venice. Situational Attribution is assuming that the cause

of an action is due to external factors. Therefore, he went to confront Gwen because

Yuna went missing for 2 weeks.

4. Persuasion

Adam persuades Michael to believe in what he says. Adam asked Michael to trust what

he saw with his naked eyes – he saw Gwen dropped a hand out of the garbage bag when

he was on the way to his car.

5. Attribution bias

Attribution bias is we explain behaviours in terms of internal and dispositional factors.

Michael thinks that Gwen is a good girl because of her looks and her behaviour in class.

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Reference

1. Myers, D. (2005). Exploring psychology (6th ed.). New York, NY: Worth.

2. Social Psychology Network. (2014). Retrieved December 2, 2014, from

http://www.socialpsychology.org/

3. Confirmation bias. (n.d.). Retrieved December 2, 2014, from

http://www.skepdic.com/confirmbias.html

4. Attribution Bias. (n.d.). Retrieved December 2, 2014, from

http://www.sagepub.com/northouse6e/study/materials/reference/reference8.2.pdf