THE HISTORY OF MANGO VIDEO, INC.

On August 13, 2005 the first broadcast of a new video show began at the Beach Theatre in St Pete Beach, FL it was designed for the Rocky Horror Picture Show cast of Interchangeable Parts. The video show lasted about 10 minutes, and featured some videos that were geared towards the Rocky Horror audience.

Later, it was named Shocker Entertainment by its founder Dan "Mango" Torregrossa At this point, they worked in Video and live stage pre-shows which were designed to interact with each other. It was a new step forward in the designing of Pre-show entertainment. In October, 2005 Interchangeable Parts would see its first hour long pre-show which was a mix of video and live stage shows.

At this point, the audience and cast members would ask "When are Mango's Videos going to start?" It was around this time that Shocker Entertainment was renamed to Mango Video.

January 2006, Mango Video was growing by leaps and bounds, so cast member Jannie Gunnlagsson, who showed interest in creating videos was added to Mango Video, and thus where the Inc. and the initials MVI came from. Also around this time, the first video ever shot by someone from MVI would air, and would be one of the most popular to date.

The graphic of the letters MVI became our signature trait, so much so, we stopped calling it Mango Video Inc, and was commonly referred to as MVI. In March of 2006, Snack Bar promotions, buying our merchandise promotions, and Theatre promotions were built into MVI, and then the addition of the entrance for our show MCs Jamie and Ed.

MVI was bumped up to 12 minutes, adding special promotions for the IP theme nights, a general disclaimer, IPScan which featured all the current cast members of IP, and the logo fly-in to start off the videos, these all still currently run to this day, though have been updated many times.

Around April 2006, the first band to play the IP stage, Hatchetface, would be the first band who worked in conjunction with MVI running in the background.

July 2006, what would be called MVI DX editing the entrance video for WWE's tag team of Degeneration-X to include our footage and videos. The first on screen prank would take place in the form of Broke Back Kilt Crewe, taking footage of our props crew that they shot, and use it against them.

August we had our first year Anniversary. MVI did a 20 minute broadcast.

At this point, Ashley Dean was then added to MVI, as well as help from Michael Barron, the team grew from 1 person to 4, as well as new ways of getting projects done, and different styles of creating.

Halloween 2006 would again present an hour worth of video, and would showcase MVI's skills in taking a previously created video and editing to our needs. It would also be the first time MVI would have two hours dedicated to the IP show, each showing of MVI would be different from the other, as well as different stage pre-shows. To see everything IP and MVI presented you would have had to go to both shows. Halloween 2006 also presented another big event known as "The Sembler party"

IP was contacted about performing at the private birthday party of Debbie Sembler, being held at a local concert venue. Using a schedule of events, the team of MVI went to work, creating 6 DVD's based on times that events were to happen. When each disc triggered, the cast would get up and perform a couple of scenes. We were hired only a couple of weeks before the event, MVI would crush out what amounted to 8 hours worth of custom video footage for broadcast at this party, in under a week, the last DVD was being burned at 3:00 in the morning the day of the event. It was pulled off flawlessly.

The Sembler party showed that MVI could edit anything as long as they could import it into "the Punisher" the main computer system used to edit most of the videos we showed. The video shows were going strong still at this point, and still running every Saturday night, and at special events. The idea of MVI: Unleashed came up.

APRIL 2007, UNLEASHED

For April fools, MVI was allowed to edit the Rocky Horror Picture Show, who put in gags, sound effects, different scenes from other cult movies and so on. The project would take 3 months to perfect. MVI took the Rocky Horror Bible, the one thing that should never change, and changed it.

June 2007 MVI would see its first broadcast at another show in West Virginia, and would be the first time our video show would be delivered completely via the Internet. It would also be the time around which Kevin Goredillo and Adam Gollenger would be added to MVI as "Web Monkeys" people who would search for videos to show in our usual broadcasts. Jacki Gay, who was there in the early stages of the video show with no name, would finally get the title of Camera Operator. Jacki is the only person who has been around as long as Dan.

September 2007 MVI saw its first commercial video shoot. A new Tattoo shop in Pinellas Park had the idea of filming a commercial, however due to budget problems; they couldn't afford even the basic prices for a 30 second ad. Kevin, being friends with the owner of the business, and being on MVI, came to us to try and help out this tattoo shop. If something drastic didn't pump more dollars into it, it would have closed. Dan, Jacki, and Kevin went to work. Shot a 1 minute commercial, scripted, edited, and delivered online, and on a DVD. The commercial ran for one month at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, offering a special discount if you mention MVI or IP. The Tattoo business is still going strong, and has even added new tattoo artists since the commercial aired. The fee MVI was paid? Two large tattoos for both Jacki and Dan. Both being custom, and the work can be seen on Dan's left arm, and Jacki's upper back.

Halloween 2007 presented 2 shows, which again we broadcast 2, 1 hour video shows with stage pre-shows that were completely different from each other. The only videos to repeat themselves were the IP/Beach Theatre promotions, as well as the first commercial shoot ever done by MVI. "Little Mary Sunshine" was the first pre show to go from Video to Stage, as the actors walked off the screen and onto the stage in a seamless transition, the screen representing one scene, the stage representing another. It was also the first time video effects were used to do full lighting effects for the cast on stage. Pain, by Three Days Grace, used the video as a background lighting source.

While all this was going on, MVI had teamed up with Opticon Productions, who was producing Spores, a series of shows based on a character who was stuck in a world of Zombies. Opticon also had productions running on Pinellas Public Access, until its closure.

PLAN 9.5

The merger of MVI and Opticon would produce Plan 9.5 productions. MVI would be the official name of the show it ran for the cast of Interchangeable Parts, and it's main concentration would be Commercials and Music videos. The Opticon side would handle all Indie film, and TV shows. It would all be dissolved a few months down the road for various reasons, Dan retained MVI. Opticon would retain it's rights, and both continue to operate specializing in their division.

2008

2008, considered the year of MVI, would prove to be the time in which we grew faster than any other year. By this time, Ashley Dean had left MVI because of School, and Jannie Gunlagsson not producing since mid 2007, some new blood was needed. Michael Barron (Pippin) was made 2nd editor and VP of MVI. Jacki Gay stayed on as a camera operator and as a script writer. Julia Golemon was added as a sound engineer, and as a script writer, and Secretary for MVI. Adam Gollenger was still a web monkey, as well as the purchasing agent, and Kevin became the Orlando sales division. Tim Redman was added due to his communications degree, and programming skill. He currently handles all IT Support, computer animations, website design and is 3rd editor. Jessikah as our web and video apprentice, and Dan Torregrossa who is still the current President of MVI, he's the first line editor, and Producer of MVI.

THE CAMERA

March 2008 MVI stepped it up one last time. After becoming business partners with Interchangeable Parts, they were able to buy the first professional quality camera. Before this time, all video was shot on Hi-8 digital cameras, which would require hours of color correcting and editing just to come close to professional quality that a 3CCD camera has.

A week later, Unleashed 2 hit the screen, MVI tripled the amount of content from last year, and featured "La Vie Boheme" as the Dinner scene, with a full choreographed cast specific to that part. It was instantly more popular that the year previous, and the first piece of footage shot with the new camera.

MVI has spanned almost 3 years, and many different people playing their parts in the company, as we move forward into the future, our goals are still the same. Produce commercials, music videos, live events, and still continue with out video show at the Beach Theatre for the cast of Interchangeable Parts, which is currently the only cast that has a video production team that does it's own video pre shows that change on a weekly basis. We look to the future plans of having a weekly show produced and sent to other casts through the world, with delivery through the Internet, and creating custom promotions and special event promotions specific to that cast. We hope that someday we will all be working on MVI full time, to produce, and create. We all, for one reason or another love that we can take designs in our minds, or ideas that just we're not feasible, and put them on DVD. We never turn down a challenge, and are constantly trying to find better ways to get things done. For our customers, and for the cast of Interchangeable Parts.