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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND
DESIGN
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
Session: Monday 8am-10am
Module: Social Psychology (PSY30203)
Lecturer: Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam
Group Members: Adele Lu Khai Syn (0323151)
Calvin Wong Kim Ming (0323642)
Tey Cheng Fern (03239412)
Yeoh Sin Yuen (0323737)
Submission Date: 1st
February 2016
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Acknowledgement
First of all, we would like to thank our Social Psychology
lecturer, Mr. Shankar for his continuous guidance throughout
the whole semester. We learned the objective of our
assignment and the concepts within the chapters from his
teachings.
We also would like to thank everyone that has been
helping us throughout the whole video shooting, to our team
members, cameraman, and classmates for giving their full
support, scarifying their time and also cooperating to make this
video well organized.
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Introduction
In this assignment, we are required to create a video clip
that requires at least 5 different concepts that we have learnt
throughout the whole semester in Social Psychology. We are
also required to write a report based on the short video and to
present the short video during class. We are divided into
groups of four, which includes Adele Lu, Calvin Wong, Tey
Cheng Fern and Yeoh Sin Yuen. After a short discussion and 4
meetings, we have decided to create a short film named
“Smoking Kills”. This short film is about a guy losing his good
friend because of smoking, involving love ones having hard
time taking in those incident and eventually changing some of
their life style but still being judge by others at the end. After
much research and analysis for our scripts, the concepts that
are used in this short film are social influence, confirmation bias,
post decision dissonance, upward counterfactual thinking and
stereotyping. Lastly, we hope that this video will allow students
to relate about the concepts in social psychology for their
everyday life.
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Procedure
All of us each agreed to come out with a story and post
the story in our whatsapp group chat. After that, we voted for
the story we think it is the best to explain the different
concepts. Finally, we decided to choose Calvin Wong’s story.
His story is about a guy who lost his good friend because of
hard-core smoking causing him to lose his life from heart attack
and lung failure.
After deciding on Calvin Wong’s story, we discussed about
the theories and concepts that can be included in the video.
Adele then 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 problems and the only suitable
way is we meet up in campus.
The day we started filming, Calvin gave a short brief about
his story and the roles that each of us will be acting on. We
used one day to film this video and about 4 hours to finish
shooting the whole video scenes.
Lastly, last video editing is done by Adele and Cheng Fern,
using the video editing software, Movie Maker. We divided the
report that we needed to do 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
17th
January 2016
Every one of us came up with a story and we voted for the best
story to work on. After that, Adele created the script and Calvin
was in charge of the location and props. Then, we gathered all
our data about the concepts in the story.
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January 2016
Calvin gave a short brief about the story and we memories our
own scripts for our own roles. After that we started filming
from 2pm till 6pm.
30th
January 2016
Adele and Cheng Fern finished editing the final video. Calvin
was in charge of the compilation of the report and Sin Yuen did
the slides for our presentation.
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Plot
Calvin and his friends were havinga normal gatheringat a
restaurant in Taylor’s University.Theyare semester 2 students for
the Foundation in Natural and Built Environment.One of his friends
gave him cigarettes and asks him to try on it. At first Calvin rejected
his friends but lastlyhe still could not resist and took the cigarette
to havea try.
The next day, one of Calvin’s classmates,Adele sawhim
smoking. Then she decided to meet up with him and have a talk.
When Adele confronted Calvin forhis wrong beings Calvin
immediatelyreplied angrilysayingthat it was none of her business!
Adele tried to say some of the bad effects that cigarette will cause
him bad health but he keeps on denyingit.
One evening, Calvin’s good friend Alex was having a casual
date with his girlfriend Sin Yuen.Alex suddenly passed out on the
floor and was sent to the hospital.At the hospitalSin Yuen heard
about the bad news and informed Calvin about it. When Calvin
knew about it, he was very sad. This incident hit Calvin hard and he
decided to stop smoking,in honourofhis friend Alex.
Calvin still has his lunch with his circle of friends.He goes out
with them but he does not smoke anymore. His classmates
stereotype him as he still mingles with the group of people, but
actuallyhe changed a new leaf and started to live a better life. He
did not even care of what others say but him beinghimself.
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Script
CHARACTER LIST:
Calvin- as Calvin, the smoker
Adele- as Adele, Calvin’s friend
C.Y- as Alex, Calvin’s close friend
Sin Yuen- as Sin Yuen, Alex’s girlfriend
Cheng Fern- as Cheng Fern, Calvin’s class mate
Zachary- as Zachary, Calvin’s smoking buddy
SCENE 1
CALVIN AND HIS FRIENDS ARE HAVING A NORMAL GATHERING
AT A RESTAURANT
Zachary: Hey Calvin, I just bought some cigarette, you want to
try some??
Calvin: No, No, No, I don’t smoke, I don’t smoke
Zachary: Why??
Calvin: No, I don’t smoke
Zachary: But teenagers now a day all smokes. Why don’t yo
want to try??
Friends: Just try, Steady man…
Calvin: Ok, ok, I want to try one
Zachary: It’s your first time right??
Calvin: Ya
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SCENE 2
AT STARBUCKS, ADELE AND CALVIN MET UP.
Adele: Hey why are you still smoking?
Calvin: Why? None of your business man.
Adele: Smoking is not good for health!
Calvin: No, smoking can release stress
Adele: Later you will have lung cancer how?
Calvin: Not that easy, now a day people seem to be very
healthy.
Adele: Later your teeth will become brown how?
Calvin: I brush my teeth everyday 2 times.
Adele: You will get old very easily!
Calvin: I am still young, only 20 years old.
Adele: If like that I don’t want to care about you anymore!
Calvin: You go then.
SCENE 3
IN A PARK, ALEX AND SIN YUEN WAS HAVING A DATE.
ALEX SUDDENLY PASSED OUT AND WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL.
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SCENE 4
A RANDOM CALL FROM ALEX’S GIRLFRIEND (SIN YUEN)
Calvin: Hello?
Sin Yuen: Sorry I need to tell you a bad new that your friend
Alex has passed away because of heart attack from a lung
failure.
SCENE 5
SIN YUEN THINKING ABOUT LIFE ALONE IN A QUIET PLACE
Sin Yuen: After that day he asked me to be his girlfriend I
decided to accept him in my life. We always had a really good
time when we are together until he started hardcore smoking.
Every day he will at least take a box of cigarette to smoke. I
should not have accepted him until he quit smoking.
SCENE 6
AT CALVIN’S ROOM, HE IS BLAMING HIMSELF FOR ALEX’S
DEATH
Calvin: If only I advice Alex to quit smoking maybe he won’t
pass away so young.
SCENE 7
WHILE IN A RESTAURANT HAVING LUNCH, SOME OF CALVIN’S
CLASSMATES WHERE THERE TO JUDGE HIM
Friends: You see him..
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Concepts
1. Social Influence
Definition: The process by which one’s thoughts and
actions are affected by other people or groups.
In the scene: Calvin got persuaded by his friends and
started to try smoking.
2. Confirmation Bias
Definition: Refers to the tendency to selectively search for
information that confirms our beliefs and disregard the
data refute our beliefs.
In the scene: Adele tries to let Calvin know the about the
bad effects of smoking, but Calvin refuse to accept what
Adele said and keep on opposing them.
3. Post Decision Dissonance
Definition: A form of regret, a worry that perhaps we
didn’t make the best choice.
In the scene: Alex passed away because of heart attack
from lung failure. Sin Yuen regretted that she did not stop
Alex from smoking since she is his girlfriend.
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4. Upward Counterfactual Thinking
Definition: Imagining different outcomes for an event that
has already occurred, consider how their predicament
could have been betterr after an unfortunate event.
In the scene: Calvin thinks that if only he had stopped Alex
from smoking, he will still be alive and will live longer.
5. Stereotyping
Definition: Judge a group of people according the schema
apply generalized information to an individual based on
the group to which he or she belongs.
In the scene: The girls classmates stereotyped Calvin as a
smoker when he mingles with the gang that usually
smokes. Although he already did gave up on smoking.
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References
- 03 Social Cognition: Thinking About the Social World.
(n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2016,from
http://thethinkspot.com/socialpsychology_1/chapters
/3
- 06 Attitudes: Making Evaluations About the World.
(n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2016,from
http://thethinkspot.com/socialpsychology_1/chapters
/6
