SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND

DESIGN
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Module: PSY30203
Group Member:
Tengku Syakira
Low Wing Chun
Ho Hong Lok
Yong Ai Yi

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Session: Monday 3.30pm

Lecturer: Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam
Submission Date: 1st Feb 2016

Acknowledgement

First, we would like to thank our Social Psychology Lecturer, Mr.

Shankar who lead us and guide us throughout this semester. Under his
guidance, we are able to understanding the concepts and objective in this
project.
Next, we would like to thank our friends who helped us in the
project. Other than that, we would like to thank our member that gave
corporation and support in this project.
Final, we want to thank Syakira who helped us on video editing and
Wing Chun who act as our main character, Jonnie in our video.

Table of Content
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Acknowledgment
Table of Content
Introduction
Method
Procedure
Discussion
Plot
Script
Concepts
Reference

Introduction
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In this group project, we were divided into 4 students in one group.

We have Syakira, Wing Chun, Hong lok and Ai Yi in our group. We were
assigned to create a short video clip that required 5 concepts in one story.
Other than that, we need to produce a report and present our video during
class. After several discussion, we decided to create a video with a title of
Johnnies First Day on Campus. It is about a freshman who was having
his very first day in his college life. He thought that it would be very cool
and exciting day in his life, but sweet life does not come to you easily. He
had faced some problems that related to friendships. The concepts we are
using in this video are stereotyping, bystander effect, egoistic models of
helping, indirect verbal aggression and counterfactual thinking (downward
counterfactual). Last but not least, we hope that this video can let more
people understand the concepts that we trying to apply in this video.

Method
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Apparatus used:
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Sony Camera
Props Used:

1.

Bag

2.

Laptop

3.

Smart Phones

4.

Drawing Book

5.

Can drinks

6.

Pen
Software used:

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iMovie

Procedure

We had a short meeting and discussed our storyline together on

campus. After we agreed together with the story that perfectly conveys
the 5 concepts that we have chosen, we proceeded to recording the
videos.

During the process, we encountered some problems with the storyline

and the recordings. We improvised and slightly changed the story. We had
some help from the other groups to complete our video. We filmed our
video within Taylors University Lakeside Campus because we find it most
convenient for all of us. It took us about 2 hours.

After the filming is done, we distributed tasks among ourselves. Syakira

would be responsible for the video editing, Ai Yi and Kang Le are
responsible for the reports and Low Wing Chun is responsible for the
presentation slides.

Discussion
29th Jan 2016

Before we conduct a meeting, we actually discussed in Whatsapp

that we are going to finish this project in one day. So we meet on
29th Jan, around 10am in Taylors Lakeside campus. In this meeting
we discuss about the concepts we are going to use in this video.
Then 4 of us come out 5 concepts and a storyline that we can apply
in it. After that, we started our filming in campus around 1pm. We
finished filming at 4pm and we organized works to every members.

Plot
It was a first day for Johnnie in Taylors University. He was taking
Foundation in Built and Environment program. He was trying to be a cool
guy and expect everyone was nice and friendly to him but in reality he
was being ignored by all the student, not even a person wanted to great
or talked to him in person.
On the same day, Johnnie went to his orientations class room. When
he reached the classroom, lecturer asked him to take a sit between those
groups and choose the group that he liked. So Johnnie decided to choose
the group that looks cool rather than the group that was lamed. But when
he joined the cooler group they all try to avoid Johnnie and let him felt he
was left out.
By the break time, Johnnie and the cool group having their lunch
together. Unfortunately, Johnnie was stomach-ache and suddenly he
farted along the group. The cool group did not helped him and then just
go away like nothing was happened.
Luckily there was a girl name Syakira with the lame group come
along to help Johnnie. They were friendlier and concern about him rather
than the other group.
Two hours later, after feeling well from stomach-ache, Johnnie went
to a table that was located outside the library and start drawing. Suddenly
Syakira appeared and asked whether Johnnie always like to draw. Johnnie
said thanks to Syakira because Syakira was helping him cure from
stomach-ache just now. Then after that Syakira asked him about the ITD
project whether Johnnie has a group or not. Then Johnnie replied that he
wanted to join the group that come along with boy that name Drake.
Syakira was totally shocked that he will join Drake group that was not
helping him at all when he was stomach-ache. So she decided to bring
along Johnnie to her group without letting Johnnie make a consideration.
Few weeks later, the result of ITD marks has come out. Johnnie
group got an A. Johnnie and his group was satisfied with their marks while
Drake and his group were argued with each other, but Drake said that he
only knows how to fart if he join their group.

Script
First scene : First day In college
Expectation
(Everyone are friendly to Johnny)
Law
: Hey Johnnie
Drake
: Sup bro
All the Girls : Hey, j~~
Reality
(Everyone act like they dont care about Johnnie)
Drake

: Hey, watch out !

Second scene (Orientation)

(Johnnie walks in class and the lecturer ask him to join a group But the
group member that he join with doesnt seems to like him)
Lecturer

: Go join a group

(Johnnie walks toward a group)

Johnnie
: Hi.
Group members : Hi (saying hi and try do distance from Johnnie)

Third Scene: ( After Lunch)

(They are walking together, suddenly Jonnie fart and his group members
leave him alone while Skyakira and her friends come and help Johnnie)
(Johnnie feel uncomfortable and fart)
Drake
: Gross! Seriously man?
The Girls
: Ewwww!!!
Chun
: Did you just fart? Lets just go....
(Syakira and her friends come and help Johnnie)
Syakira
: Hey man are you okay?

Forth Scene (After healing from stomach-ache)

(After Jonnie heal from stomach-ache Jonnie feel thankful to Syakira and
she wants him to be in her ITD (Intro to Design) group)
(Syakira walks toward Johnnie when he is drawing)
Syakira
: Hey! Johnnie! Are you always drawing?
Johnnie
: Yeah.
Syakira
: Oh yeah~
Johnnie
: By the way, Im really grateful that you helped me out the
other day
Syakira
: Um... Anyway, do you have group for ITD?
Johnnie
: No, but Im planning to join the boy in reds group.
Syakira
: You mean Drake? You want to join Drake? He didnt even help
you! Come on man! You know what you should join my group.
I mean youre so good at drawing anyways.
Johnnie
: Well, I would have to tell the lecturer first.
Syakira
: It okay, I already told Mr. Paul. Bye see you around.

Fifth Scene (At the class)

(Drakes group members are gossiping about Syakira snatch Johnnie in her
group)
Kimberly
Drake
Melarie
Zoe
Melarie

: OMG, did you heard? Johnnie went to Syakiras group!

: What? I thought he was saying he is going to join our group.
: But Syakira had to go and snatch him, she always does that!
: We need Johnnie. He is good at drawing.
: Syakiras not good with her assignment anyways, so its
good that she has Johnnie.

Sixth Scene (Result coming out)

(Jonnie and Syakira check their result after they check the result, Jonnie
wants a high-five from Syakira but she is not that willing to do so)
Johnnie
Syakira

: I heard the result are out.

: Seriously? OMG! We got an A!

(Drakes members heard that they got a good result and start to gossip)
Zoe
Drake
Right?

: I told you we should have gotten Johnnie

: So what? If he gets in our group, he just knows how to fart.

Concepts
1. Stereotyping
A general belief about a group of people. Differs from prejudice in that it
can have positive or negative connotations. Runs the risk of becoming
prejudicial and leading to discrimination. In the video, Johnnie was seen
stereotyping when he judged the 2 groups of people based on what he
saw without proper information.
2. Bystander effect
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological
phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any
means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability
of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. In the video,
Drakes group did not help Johnnie when he had stomach-ache as they
assumed somebody else would take the initiative to assist Johnnie and
later left him alone.
3. Egoistic models of helping
Egoism encourages helping because of a concern about the costs to ones
self if help is not provided. Egoism seeks to reduce personal distress.
Egoism highlights the potential rewards for helping others. In other words,
a selfish help. In the video, Syakira was seen helping Johnnie when he was
unwell. But she was doing it only for the sake to get closer to him so he
would join her group and help her achieve a good grade.
4. Indirect verbal aggression
The aggression is not clearly derived from aggressor towards the victim,
which the victim is unclear about it and was done verbally. For example,
spreading rumours, gossiping and etc. In the video, Drakes group were
gossiping about how Syakira was being rude and unethical for taking
Johnnie into her group only to help her achieve her targets.
5. Counterfactual thinking (downward counterfactual)
Imagining different outcomes for an event that has already occurred. Is
usually associated with bad or negative events. Can be used to improve or
worsen your mood. In the video, Drakes group realized that Syakira and
Johnnie both got A and they did not. To improve their own mood, they
stated that if Johnnie were to join them, he would be farting all the time
and not doing work.

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