We finally have a rough cut and are excited about what we have.

We are still looking for independent musicians to work with. Leave a comment below and we’ll get in contact with you.

We also want to revamp the website and need to work with a web developer. We want to have a landing page with our trailer, maybe a small news feed, a link to the blog, and some inormation about the cast and crew. If you want to work with us, leave us a comment and we’ll get a hold of you via email.

We are excited. We hope you are too!

If you want to be part of the street team or just want to help spread the word, send us an email at anthony (at) 2243themovie dot com or use the Contact forms.  We would love to meet you and have you help us.

We are all really excited about this movie reaching it’s fruition and know you are as well. Judging from the reaction we had after (multiple) screenings of what we have done, it looks like we can expect a large increase in the number of excited fans.

Anthony Thompson

The following video is a blooper found during editing. Alex (Jacob Randall) is supposed to pull the pistol smoothly from Mike’s (Darius Hagens) pants. He fails.

Having trouble viewing the video? Try the Quicktime version.

We took a small break from the movie this past weekend to enter into a 10 hour film competition.  Here is our entry and little piece explaining.

NOTE: Give the video 10 seconds. We had to put ten seconds of black as a bumper at the beginning.

The same crew that will be bringing you 0:22:43 also gives you 12th Street.

This short was created in 10 hours as an entry into the Independent Filmmaker’s Coalition of Kansas City’s One Night Stand Competition.

The One Night Stand gives filmmaking teams 10 hours to write, shoot, edit, and deliver a no more than 5 minute short film. The 2009 ONS competition required teams to include:

Prop: a piece of paper

Line of dialog: “It’s alive, It’s alive”

Theme: unrequited love.

This short tied for the Captain’s Choice Award after screening in the competition. We are all very proud of the work we did and hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it.

This is uploaded exactly as it was turned in, so there are a few changes to the credits that I failed to insert due to time restraints, so I apologize:

The short was written by Jerry White, Anthony Thompson, and Allie Terveer.

DP stands for Director of Photography, in case you didn’t know. I didn’t have time to make the long title and my long name look good, so I just substituted DP.

Allie Terveer was also an indispensable member of the editing team.

Thom Proctor composed the music within the 10 hour time limit, so give him a round of applause for that.

Please, leave your comments and questions below and we shall address and answer them.

Just a little housekeeping.  Nothing special.

This is a short, two minute throw together of some roughly edited scenes from 0:22:43. This was first shown at the June 3, 2009 meeting of the Independent Filmmaker’s Coalition of Kansas City and the response was very positive. We hope we get the same positive responses from our adoring masses.

Please, tell us what you think. Good? Bad? Ugly? We need your input to improve.

This is a quick little intro into our editing workflow. You have this rare opportunity to see the blood and guts of how this movie is getting made. There will be more of these types of videos as we continue this fascinating, laborious, and rewarding process.

Alex gets jumped by a surprise guest.

This is about 45 minutes of makeup prep sped up to fill a touch less than 6 minutes. Why was Mike Wilson getting made up like that? Oh… we can’t really tell you that, but let us guarantee you that it’s really cool.

We really appreciate thoughts, comments, feelings, etc, so please drop us a line on what you think. Leave a comment below.

After the accident, Alex found some new friends. Who are they? Watch and find out.