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
May 29
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-
May 7
Principal photography is a wrap for 0:22:43. Listen to what is to come for the film.
Apr 15
The past two weeks, we have failed to post an after action video. We apologize. Turns out this “making a movie” thing is actually pretty tiring. So, here is what’s been going on:
We had a great past couple of weeks. Due to the schedules of our actors and crew, we’ve had to juggle around the schedule and boy, oh boy, juggle we did. Turns out, though, that our schedule is much more flexible and doable than we thought. The result of this is that we are about a day and a half ahead of schedule. Not a lot, but still pretty dang good.
This last weekend (April 11 & 12) we did a lot. Saturday, we decided to really take advantage of the good weather and knocked out 17 pages of script in that single day. For those of you who don’t know, that’s pretty unheard of. That was about three days of work we had originally planned, but with the crappy weather we’ve been getting lately, we just went whole hog and it paid off.
Sunday, we attempted to preempt the rain, so we canceled and had a day off. It was nice, but the rain we were expected didn’t come until AFTER we were schedule to wrap. Oh well, we can’t win ‘em all.
That’s not to say that everything has been going peachy. We did have a couple of problems that we powered through on Saturday. I won’t bring you down with the details, but let’s just say that a green-screen needs a lot of set up time and can cause tempers to fray a bit. However, despite the creative/procedural differences, we just laid aside our problems, worked together, and rocked a 17 page day. No matter what, that is a good day.
Over the past weeks, we’ve had a lot of support from you, the fan base! In fact, we have raised almost $80 from just donations alone. That may sound like a lot, but don’t let that dissuade you from clicking that Donate! button. Every donation comes with a personal Thank You video from all the Cast and Crew and if you donate more than $10, we will make sure to ship you a copy of the movie when we have finished. It’s a pretty sweet deal.
In lieu of actual posts, video or otherwise, we have been posting many promo and behind the scenes videos. This has been very well received and are really humbled by the responses we’ve gotten from our videos. Many of the behind the scenes stuff can be seen by clicking the Videos button up at the top of this page. The promo videos pretty much all live on the Facebook Fan Page.
The Fan Page has been an amazing tool to communicate with all of you. At the time of writing, we have 231 fans. No wonder Facebook is our second largest source of traffic to this site. Behind only direct, typing in the address, traffic. This really shows us that we have a lot really great people excited about our project and we can’t wait to let you guys see our vision!
I think at over 500 words, it’s about time to stop. That should pretty much cover all of our news up to this point, anyway. Remember: We LOVE comments, so please, leave a comment, an @ reply on Twitter, a comment on the Facebook Fan Page, anything. YOU are the reason we have the ability to leave comments and we LOVE to interact with our community!
Apr 13
Our Visual Effects Supervisor, Kody Belshe, had some downtime to get some slow motion shots of the cast doing various activities. Here are the best clips put to music and introduced by a rather clever and good-looking fellow.
