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Romeo Theater: Polaroid
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One of the reasons The Daily Reel loves John Romeo is because he does our work for us. Along with finding and hosting some of the best original content on the Web via his Romeo Theater Web site, he also gets the filmmakers to explain the secrets of their craft after their film finishes. John Romeo is a lazy journalist's dream.
The latest well-made viral vid to screen on Romeo is Matt Cassatta's clever Polaroid. it's the story of five friends who discover a mysterious Polaroid camera that predicts the future. Sometimes the results are good (a dream weekend in Vegas chock full of strippers in cash), and sometimes they're a little gruesome. All in all, it's a well-made, well-acted clip that's perfectly suited for online viewing.
Polaroid is one of four shorts Casatta and his cohorts from the ThesePeople comedy troupe made last year for a "Shocktoberfest" series. "Polaroid was the first one we released and has remained the biggest hit of the series," says Cassatta. "It is a parody of a Goosebumps book and a Twilight Zone episode." The shoot took seven hungover hours to pull off. "We were all kind of low on energy as we traditionally go out on the town the night before a shoot, leaving us almost useless on the day [of the shoot]." They could have fooled us.
Romeo found ThesePeople thanks to their exposure on NBC's It's Your Show, a $100,000 contest. "I would love to have some ReeledIn members submit their movies," says Romeo. "They seem to be a group that is more professional than the kid videotaping a friend on his skateboard with a cell phone, and then editing it with a copyrighted song and posting it on YouTube. I want the quality of the movies to keep increasing, with independent directors using my show as a way to promote themselves and their work."
-Matthew Ross
John Romeo, featuring These People
Comedy
2:57 (5:43 including intro and commentary)
Richmond, VA
Matt Cassatta
Joel Sunman
Nick Capul
Aaron Luedtke
Chris Csont
Matt Cassatta
Matt Cassatta and Aaron Luedtke
Steve Immer
Audio Mix : Andrew Smetek
Photoshopping : Scott Campbell
-John Romeo
Creator/Producer of The Romeo Theater
www.romeo-theater.com