Student Cinema Guild’s ‘The Pattersons’ selected for film festivals
Black screen. Climatic music swells. Text: A SCG Motion Picture. Copyright MXVII by SCG LLC. A framed family photo appears, featuring two parents and two children. The family sits at a dinner table. The girl seems flustered. Accompaniment leans toward horror genre. Closeup of the mother with a black eye wearing pearls. A dark concrete hallway with tally marks scratched onto it is seen. Closeup of father’s scarred skin. Heavy breathes and sharp music play. The daughter runs up stairs. The son looks to the camera with a black eye. She opens the door. A knife spins on a dark table, The kitchen appears in darkness with a flashlight being shown through the window. Feet climb the stairs. Closeups of the family at dinner,. The daughter opens a door. Black screen. Text: “The Pattersons.” A SCG Motion Picture. Copyright MXVII by SCG LLC.
A film directed by Media School student Jordan Iobbi, BA’22, written by senior Sam Wichhart and co-produced by the Student Cinema Guild and IU will be featured at three film festivals.
The film has been officially selected by the New York Lift-Off Film Network, the Victory International Film Festival and the Chicago Horror Film Festival.
Each year, the club does a major production of a selected student script. The film “The Pattersons” follows a disoriented girl who wakes up in the middle of a television show as she navigates her way through the episode in order to escape while avoiding the omnipresent cameras that stalk her and her “family.”
The short film is classified as thriller, drama and horror.
Credits:
- Jordan Iobbi, director
- Sam Wichhart, writer, producer, director of photography
- Madelyn Knight, producer
- Sammi Gee, producer
- Alyssa Woolard, producer
- Max Weger, producer
- Isabella Bonanno, key cast: “Marie”
- Pete Law, key cast: “Todd”
- Noah Marcus, key cast: “Steven”
- Brandie, key cast: “Julie”
- Max Pattison, key cast: “Steven 2”
- Maya McQueen, key cast: “Marie 2”
- Melanie Taylor, set designer
- Austin Schmidt, camera operator
- Emma Rodes, costume designer
- Samantha Kaufman, stunt coordinator
- Jacqueline Preston, hair and makeup
- Jack Fahey, sound design/mixing
- Han-Wei Hsing, sound design/mixing
- Bianca Desai, assistant director
- Carter Burkhart, second assistant director
- Maeve Panich, assistant editor
- Brody McFadden, first assistant camera
- Claire Austin, script supervisor
- Eve Elliot, sound recordist
- Katie Parker, gaffer
- Brandon Dananay, key grip
- Maeve Panich, BTS Photography
- Rama Sardar, production assistant
- Nick Johnson, production assistant
- Max Pattison, production assistant
- Lauren Davis, production assistant
- Caroline Parks, production assistant
- Divyam Arora, production assistant
- Avantika Vedam, production assistant
- Munu Adnan, assistant writer
- Natalie Wells, assistant writer
- Rama Sardar, assistant writer
- Veronica Rooney, assistant writer
- Maeve Panich, assistant writer
- Kate Feinberg, assistant writer
- Bianca Desai, assistant writer
- Jacqueline Preston, assistant writer
- Jared Cohen, assistant writer