Psychology of Waiting (Behind the Scenes 2)

Hi, I am Tin Fung, a member of MY psychology Channel. I am a psychology student just like the other members. We are a group of passionate students who wish to make psychology knowledge/ information available for everyone.

We started the investigation from our own experiences in Kuala Lumpur. As a student in Kuala Lumpur, bus is the most economical way for us to get to our destination. However, the average waiting time for bus in Malaysia is 30 to 40 minutes. This actually led us to feel frustrated and anxious sometimes while waiting for the bus. Thus, the founder of this channel, Gary Yap suggested us to make an investigation towards Psychology of Waiting in the first production. We are interested to know that why do we feel such as a way while we spend our time in waiting. We have searched for the journal and article regarding the psychology of waiting and compiled everything.

It’s quite challenging in the first shooting of our production, as our assignment submission date and final exam are quite near. In addition, we do not have experiences on this kind of production. We try our best to squeeze out a time slot to shoot our first video. Although my English command is not really good, they gave me the opportunity to be one of the Emcee in this video. I found that it’s not easy to be an announcer especially for me whom Chinese is the first language. After the bio psych exam, we spent 2 hours to brief the whole script and about 4 to 5 hours to shoot the video. I never know that video shooting can be so fun, lot of funny NG and jokes during the shooting progress. Besides, our own production team has also conducted an observational study near a bus stop and we obtained interesting findings.

This psychology channel not only offer simplified psychology knowledge to the public, but also act as a stage for “us”, as students to improve ourselves and sharpen our skills. Last but not least, I would like to say thank you to MY psychology channel for giving me such an opportunity to participate in this meaningful program.


TF