short film concept

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School of Architectural, Building and design Foundation in Natural and Built Environment

Report for “Story of Jean”

Names Student ID.

Heng Sy Hua 0321999

Koo Jian Xiang 0322975

Ng Kwang Zhou 0322802

Omar A Omar Layas 0320808

Hoh Jean Ming 0322496

Rachel 0323005

Subject: Social Psychology

Tutor name: Mr. Shankar

Intake: FNBE JAN 2015

Tutorial Group: Monday (10 am-‐ 12 am)

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Table of Report

NO. Content Page Number

1 Acknowledgement 3

2 Introduction 4

3 Method 5-‐8

4 Plot 9-‐10

5 Script 11-‐14

6 Application of concepts 15-‐19

7 Conclusion 20

8 Minutes of meetings 21-‐23

9 References 24

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Acknowledgement

To start this report, we would like to give an enormous amount of thanks

to our lecturer, Mr.Shankar for sharing his psychological knowledge that he

learned in his younger age, and opting our eyes and minds.

Through the lectures given, we gained so much knowledge from him. It is

beyond the shadow of doubt that without him our minds would still be

lacking of information about what is really happening around us and helped

us to be able to see clearly about the reality of an incident.

Next, we also like to thank each other's presence in all meeting and

shooting session that we had together. Indeed, we are grateful for one

another for being supportive throughout our hard time doing the assignment,

as well as willing to contribute the work equally. Finally we would like to

express our gratitude to everyone that has given us support both physically

and mentally in order for us to finish our work successfully.

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Introduction

Introduction, as we arranged them to be , we should start at the very

beginning whether it's a start of story or a journey for our report.

In this project, we are assigned to come up with a documentary of a

storyline video clip that contains 5 psychology concepts. The video clip must

be worth of 3 to 5 minutes long. This project should be done in a group of 5

to 6 members and students are allowed to choose any concepts that the feel

most suitable to their story. Also, all the concepts should be taken from the

chapters that had taught in class.

Apart from that, upon from finishing the project, there are three 3 important

requirements to fulfil, first each group have to come up with the video clip

that includes 5 different psychology concepts, second every group have to

create a report based on video clip they made, and finally each group need

to present a PowerPoint slides to the lecturer and their classmates.

Through this process of completing the project, we are able to cope the 5

concepts that we had used in our film. With this, we are able to relate and

infuse the concepts back to our daily life. Another purpose of this project is

to allow the student to engage with psychological inquiry and become self-

regulated learners.

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Method

Milieu

The filming took place in several place in Taylors University Lakeside Campus, we took the first scene in architecture studio level 3 to show working scene. Then we moved to the hallway outside architecture studio level 3 where the main actress and actor passing by. The staircase outside SLC as a meeting point for both actor and actress where the scene is most suitable for that particular situation. We went to the commercial block for the ending scene and car park where the accident happened in the video.

Timing

We started filming on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm – 5.30pm, we chose the weekends because the campus is less crowded and it is easier for us to film during that time period where lighting is appealing.

Operation

I. Discussion

We communicated through Whatsapp and facebook , jobs and tasks were distributed through whatsapp, meeting time and venue were also discussed through whatsapp and facebook. Whereas for ideas and brainstorming for storyline and etc we discussed during meeting which usually held in library after class.

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II. Role delegation

Every member is best to contribute his or her effort as much as other members to be fair, We discussed and settled the roles for everyone based on their forte to ensure efficiency while completing this assignment.

Name of member Overall Context Video Context Hoh Jean Ming Grammar checker Main Character

(Jean) Rachel Yeo Report editor Main Character

(Rachel) Heng Sy Hua Slides designer Rachel’s bestfriend

(Amelissa) Koo Jian Xiang Film producer Jean’s bestfriend

(Leo) Ng Kwang Zhou Report editor Lecturer Omar Layas Report edior Jean’s bestfriend

(Omar)

III. Video Filming

As mentioned earlier, we filmed at Taylors University Lakeside Campus at several venues as there were many different scenes and we chose the most suitable location for every scene.

Each scene were taken from several angles to show different angles and closeness to portrayed the character perfectly and the scene to be as perfect as possible. We tried our best to film it in the most professional way, our videographer Leo, Jian Xiang has many experience in video filming therefore we used a different approach of filming compare to the ordinary ways.

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IV. Analysis, tabulation and presentation

The video clip we did must actually supported by a report as well as a PowerPoint slide presentation, as it is a part of requirement based on our project brief given. Appropriate analysis, research as well as tabulation of data was done to make sure we are on the right track. We delegated the tasks of the report to speed up the process and efficiency.

As for our presentation, we went for the minimalistic theme for our slides layout, this is for easy reading purposes and the slides to explain with the simple way and easier for everyone to understand. We also practiced our presentation before the actual presentation to avoid any mistake and more the presentation to be interesting.

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Apparatus and material used

To ensure the filming to go smoothly and more professional, and for the video to go according to plan, we used a few apparatus and equipment to abide whatever possible bad causes.

• Camera (Canon EOS 70D DSLR) Using a DSLR is much better and more professional compare to phone as the video quality and sound quality is much better.

• Lenses (Canon 24-105mm F4 L Lens, Canon 10-18mm STM Lens and Canon 50mm F1.8) Different lenses for different scene and location for the video so that the outcome will be as clear and smooth as possible

• Tripod and Tripod slider Using tripod will help to void shakiness in the video and help to stabilize the video directly, and also video slider for camera can be used to take different angles at the same time moving as smooth as possible.

• Application used to produce the film: Final Cut Pro X This video editor is more professional compare to windows movie maker and imovie.

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Plot

The story begins with introducing Jean as a hardworking student

where he was lazy during the past semester. His reason on being a

hardworking student is to improve himself and to impress a girl that she

loves for a long time. The girl that she loves is Rachel. Rachel is a famous

and intelligent student in the school.

One day they bumped up with each other. They had a small

conversation. Both of them are obviously very shy. Jean is indeed very

happy to came up a small conversation first. That’s how they both met. Jean

then decided to get her phone number in the studio, but Rachel’s best friend

Amelisa denied. It turns out that Rachel still agree in giving him her phone

number.

They started to hang out and text with each other. Eventually they

both are together. They study hard, work hard and do well together in

exams. They both have a great year ahead in degree life too. One day, their

lecturer return the exam papers to them, but Jean didn't receive it because

his lecturer stereotyped that he will cheat in the exam, so he failed Jean.

Rachel immediately proves to the lecturer that Jean didn't cheat in the

exam. The lecturer then apologise to him.

Although they have a good relationship, but fights occur in both of

them as well. One day, both of them were arguing about affairs in the car.

The fight got intense and Jean lost control while disputing matters. The car

slipped. Rachel did not survive from the accident, but Jean did.

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After the accident, Jean felt depressed and he is in lost of direction.

His life was ruined by himself. Amelisa is very sad and eventually scolded

Jean for driving recklessly. Jean is ignoring everyone in his life now. He

regrets for his action during the fight. 5 months later, Jean saw a beautiful

girl who looks like her past deceased girlfriend. He is very shock. Therefore,

the story continues to the audience with great imaginary of what could it

happen after Jean saw the girl who looks like Rachel.

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Script

Scene 1 Time : 12:00 p.m.

Location : Taylor’s Block E LVL 3 Classroom & LVL 4 Architecture Studio

Actors : Jean, Omar, Leo

Narrator:

This is the story of Jean. His result did not seem good throughout the past semester, because of

his lazy attitude. But not now anymore, he turns out to be a very hardworking student. He stays

at the architecture studio to do his work all day long, in order to get good grades, and to impress

his lecturer. Not only about that, he wants to pursue his dream of chasing a girl whom he admires

for so long.

His SELF- EFFICACY level is high too. He doesn’t give up easily. Unlike the other students who

give up easily and unable to handle the stress when the assignments go too hard.

So. Who’s the girl?


Location : Taylor’s Uni Square & Block E LVL 3 Classroom & LVL 4 Architecture

Studio

Actors : Rachel, Jean, Omar, Leo

Narrator:

Well.

She is Rachel. Rachel is a student with high distinction result where her works are widely

recognised by the school of architecture. Her works got displayed at the whole E block lvl 4. She

is very intelligent, adorable and creative too! Everyone knows her. And of course, she is the

apple of the eye of every boys in the school.

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Location : Infront of Taylor’s SLC Centre

Actors : Rachel, Jean

Narrator:

One day, Jean is walking down towards a restaurant for lunch. Out of nowhere, he bumps into

Rachel. Her stuff drops. So Jean quickly pick up her stuff, and return it back to her.

You look good today, says Jean.

But Rachel says nothing. She is very shy.

She’s blushing all the way to the studio. While Jean goes YAYYYY and continues to walk

towards with a very sweet smile on his face.


Location : Taylor’s Block E LVL 4 Architecture Studio

Actors : Rachel, Jean, Amelisa

Narrator:

Jean decides to get her phone number. Amelisa, who is Rachel’s best friend says “ No, Rachel

has to focus in her studies. She has no time for this.” And giving out Rachel’s number to

strangers would not be appropriate too.

But Rachel disagrees to her. She gives Jean her number instead. Well, Amelisa has just

experienced a FALSE CONSENSUS EFFECT, awkwardly.

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Location : Taylor’s Block E LVL 4 Architecture Studio

Actors : Rachel, Jean, Amelisa

Narrator:

So both of them started to text each other. Eventually, they get to be together. Throughout the

days, both Jean and Rachel have been doing good in their relationship. They manage their

studies well. They pass their exams together, and not to forget working on the assignments

together.

Both of them are in deep love now. They have a very good year ahead in degree life. They share

PASSIONATE LOVE together, encounter problem and solve together.

Scene 6 Time : 04.20 p.m.

Location : Taylor’s Lecture Theatre 8

Actors : All group members

Narrator:

Jean's lecturer STEREOTYPES Jean and accuses him that he will cheat in the exam because he

looks like a bad student. One day their lecturer distribute their exam papers. All of them get their

papers, except for Jean.

"Where's mine?" Says jean.

"You, cheated on your exam, I gotta fail you!" Says the lecturer.

Obviously Jean is innocent.

Rachel raises her hand and says: I can prove that he didn't cheat in his exam.

Ohhhhh, okayy I'm sorry. Says the lecturer.

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So the lecturer apologises and picks up his exam paper and returns it back to him with a

handshake and a tap on his shoulder.

Scene 7 Time : 05.00 p.m.

Location : Taylor’s Staff Parking Lot

Actors : Jean, Rachel

Narrator:

Falling in love is easy but maintaining it is hard. They have a fight in the car about affairs and suddenly, Scene 8 Time : 06.00 p.m.

Location : Taylor’s Staff Parking Lot

Actors : Jean, Amelisa, Omar, Leo

Narrator:

The car slips and runs to a pole. Jean's HOSTILE AGGRESSION in him to release frustration has lead Rachel to suffer from serious injuries. She did not survive from the accident. Her best friend Amelisa blames Jean for driving recklessly , and eventually cost Rachel's life. He starts to smoke and ignores everyone because he is in deep depression.

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Application of Concepts

1. Self-efficacy

Definition: one's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations

or accomplish a task.

How is it portrayed: In the film, Jean is an architectural student who

did not do very well in his results. However, his self-efficacy is very

high as he always belief in himself that he can do better in the next

exam. Also, he did not give up easily and always be confidant. With

his high self-efficacy, he is determined to work harder unlike his

friends who just gave up.

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2. False consensus effect

Definition: tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people

agree with our beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviours.

How is it portrayed: This happened when Jean wanted to get Rachel

phone number in architectural studio. However, when Jean

approached Rachel and asked his question, Amelisa stopped Jean

from getting Rachel phone number. This is because Amelisa thought

that Rachel will have the same opinion as her and felt that giving

phone number to a stranger is not appropriate. It is surprising that

Rachel actually disagreed with Amelisa and she gave her number to

Jean at the end. Eventually, Amelisa felt awkward as what she

assumed is actually wrong.

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3. Passionate love

Definition: Characterised by the intense longing for one’s partner. It is

thrilling and full of roller-coaster emotions. It also often occurs in the

beginning of a relationship.

How is it portrayed: Passionate love occurs when Jean started to text

Rachel every day and slowly, they become couple. They did

everything together, and share each other’s feelings every moments.

Both of them are in deep love as they encounter problems together

and looked forward for their degree life in the future. They even

planned their future together!

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4. Stereotype

Definition: An over generalized belief about a particular group or class

of people where it is a common phenomenon which is assuming that

all members of a group shares a common feature.

How is it portrayed: An incident happened when Jean and Rachel

lecturer is giving back their results paper but Jean did not get his result

back. His lecturer accused him in cheating in the exam as he thought

that Jean is a bad and lazy students who will not got good results. At

that moment, Rachel raised her hand and proved Jean innocent. The

lecturer believed him this time , he gave Jean’s result back and

apologised to him.

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5. Hostile aggression

Definition: An act of aggression stemming from feelings of anger and

aimed at inflicting pain. It is a type of aggression driven by anger and

performed as an end in itself.

How is it portrayed: This happened when Jean and Rachel is having a

fight in the car while Jean is still driving. The aggressive emotion drive

Jean out of control. The car slipped and ran into a pole. Jean’s act out

of hostile aggression leaded this accident and caused Rachel to suffer

in serious injuries. Sadly, Rachel did not survive in this accident in the

end.

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Conclusion In conclusion, this assignment had helped all of us in this group on

understanding the concepts and theories in a better way. Not only

about that, it also had taught us on how to analyse specific concepts

based on the particular scenario. We have now acquire an in-depth

understanding of the theories we chose as well as the theories that we

did not include in our video clip.

Besides, we would also like to express our greatest gratitude to our

lecturer, Mr. Shankar for teaching and helping us throughout this

semester. We would like to thank him for allowing us to be his student

and we are undoubtedly grateful to be under his wings for this subject.

Last but not least, we would like to take a moment to thank and

appreciate each other's presence throughout the whole preparation of

this project, in order to complete it. This is because we all believed

that it takes great effort to complete it and we can't do it if it's only a

person. The more man power, ideas and helping hands, the faster we

get the task complete.

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Minutes of meeting

Discussion 1

Date

Time

Venue

26th November 2015

3pm

Library Event Hall 2, Taylor’s Lakeside

Attendees Roles

Heng Sy Hua, Amelisa

Hoh Jean Ming

Koo Jian Xiang, Leo

Ng Kwang Zhou

Omar Layas

Rachel Yeo Chi Xuan

Slides Designer

Grammar Checker

Director, Videographer

Producer

Editor

Script Writer

Task achieved

1. Distribution of Jobs - Every member of the group was given a task to do to be fair. It also

sped up the progress.

2. Discussion on Storyline - Discussed the plot of the story by adding 5 different concepts into

the story.

3. Preparation for Presentation Slides

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- We discussed on the design of the slides and made the final decision on details and information that need to be added into the slides.

Discussion 2

Date

Time

Venue

28th November 2015

2pm – 6pm

Studio 10, Taylor’s Lakeside

Attendees Roles


Hoh Jean Ming

Koo Jian Xiang, Leo

Ng Kwang Zhou

Omar Layas

Rachel Yeo Chi Xuan

Actor

Main male actor

Director, Videographer

Actor

Actor

Main female actor

Task achieved

1. Discussion on Storyline - We discussed about the story line and confirmed on the characters.

After that, we planned the settings.

2. Video Shooting - We started video shooting on the same day after discussion. All of

the settings are in Taylor’s Lakeside.

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Discussion 3

Date

Time

Venue

29th November 2015

3pm – 5pm

Student Life Centre, Taylor’s Lakeside

Attendees Roles


Hoh Jean Ming

Koo Jian Xiang, Leo

Ng Kwang Zhou

Omar Layas

Rachel Yeo Chi Xuan

Grammar checker

Editor

Editor

Editor

Editor

Editor

Task achieved

1. Video Shooting - We continued filming the unfinished video as the story was quite

long. The video was in the same setting – Taylor’s Lakeside.

2. Rehearsal for presentation - We discussed on the presentation slides and practice for

presentation.

3. Writing report - We distributed the report to everyone evenly and everyone will

send their content to Amelisa to be combined.

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References

1. Micha S Brosbe (2011) Hostile Aggression http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79061-9_1392

2. Shuan Thing. (2014) Story-telling: What Makes A Good Story http://piktochart.com/what-makes-a-good-story/

3. Strawburry17 (2012) Camera: Tips and Tricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbeVSx1Gf4k

4. Study.com (2015) False Consensus Effect: Definition and Example http://study.com/academy/lesson/false-consensus-effect-definition-example.html

5. Terrible Minds (2011) Ways to Plan Plot and Prep Your Story http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/09/14/25-ways-to-plot-plan-and-prep-your-story/

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