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

We know this has been a long time coming, but here are the submissions that we received from those of you who had fun with our little website banner competition.

We received 12 submissions. All of which are in the poll below (although, the first six followed the actual submission requirements), so feel free to vote on which ever one(s) you like. Since it is a multiple choice answer poll, feel free to choose as many as you want.

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.

Hello everyone this is Jerry, long time no talk. I haven’t posted a text comment on here in a while, but I’m just sitting here so I thought I would let everyone know what we have been up to the last week or so. First things first all the footage is captured in the computer and backed up on multiple hard drives to avoid any loss. Last thing we want is a hard drive to crash and lose our movie, that would suck. After 40 hours of logging footage and organizing we got to work on editng. Last Saturday and Sunday we pulled an edit fest and went to work (until 5am sunday morning). Going into this weekend we have a rough cut of about 15 minutes of footage. We are really liking the way things are cutting together, it is a good thing to think about editing when you are shooting it keeps things a little simpler in the editing room.

Now comes a new week, we are hard at work trying to get promotional things together. We need to print business cards as well as design shirts. We will be finishing up these things hopefully this weekend and we still are looking for our new logo, (for more info on that the post is to the right of where we are now.) T-shirts are a big thing we are trying to get in the works, so if anyone knows a screenprinter in the Kansas City/Warrensburg area that would be willing to work us a good deal please use the contact us and let us know.

Next on the agenda is PR. We have been looking at different avenues to get more people to know about the film. We are working with some public relations people to get a press release ready so we can send it off to newspapers and radio stations. We have contacts at the Ottawa Herald in Ottawa,Ks (thats where I graduated high school) also the cummulus radio stations in KC. We would like to get more outlets to send the release to so if you know anyone in the radio, tv, internet, or paper world that would be interested in giving us a little plug please contact us as well.

Little fun fact: We have had over 2500 viewers to this website since we launched mid-february. Thats good stuff.

Back to business. I went to The Offspring concert in Kansas City last weekend, it was awesome. While I was there I conducted some business which seem like I do everywhere I go now. I met a man from Family Video which is a movie rental place similar to Blockbuster. I was talking to him and he started talking about the possibility of getting 0:22:43 into a movie rental store. How awesome would that be, our movie available for rent. I will be contacting him today to find out more details and keep you fine people up to date. As of now I think that is what is in the works. We are still trying to meet the deadline of July 21st for Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY, and we will be sending some of the rough cut to our composer Thom Proctor .

Also I know we say this all the time as we are still looking for donations. We have multiple things to still purchase to finish this film up. With your donation of $20 or more you will get a signed copy of the DVD, so think of your donation as reserving a copy of the film. If you dont have the means to donate at the moment please keep spreading the word, and become our fan or follow us on twitter by clicking the icons to the side which are links to the different places. Also you can still embed a video from our videos page on your social network site of choice and you will get a special thanks once we see it up and live. Once again thanks for everything from everyone thus far and we will be talking to you soon.

More photos and video will be up throughout the weekend so make sure to check back.

-Jerry-

Alex gets jumped by a surprise guest.

UPDATE: The requirements for the site logo competition are as follows:

- Size: 940px x 110px
- Background Color: #333333
- If the design has corners, they must be rounded.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to Contact Us.

Ok, hopefully the title got you excited.  This is a pretty awesome little announcement we have for you.

We need a graphic designer.

Look.  Look up at the title for this website.  That is pretty freaking blase, right?  Well, here’s your chance to get some sweet 0:22:43 swag!

We need a logo for the movie’s website.  What I suggest is a competition of sorts to design and choose our logo!  What we need is something that will give the impression and feel of this fine psychological horror/thriller.  The only requirements are that the background color of the image be #333333 and the image be in a standard file format like JPEG, PNG, or GIF (if you must).

Hopefully we will have a pretty good response to this call for creativity and if we do, the Trio of myself (Anthony), Jerry, and Allie will judge and choose the top two or three (we may adjust this number based on submissions) and then let you, the fans decide.  We will create a poll for you to vote on and the winning design with the most votes will become the new logo for the website!

What do you get for your designing troubles?  Well, you will get a designated, official credit as the movie’s graphic designer/artist and a free copy of the DVD signed by as many of the cast and crew as we can wrangle.  The winnings may be subject to change until the other two “sign” off on the decision.

So, all entries should be emailed to anthony (at) 2243themovie dot com and we will take entries until the end of June.  Again, the date may be moved forward or back depending on mitigating factors.

If you have any questions, concerns, comment, etc. about this competition or anything else, please feel free to utilize the Contact page and we will get back to you soon!  Leave a comment and break out your graphic design skills/friends!

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.

Principal photography is a wrap for 0:22:43. Listen to what is to come for the film.