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

We have seen a drastic increase in traffic since launching the site on January 31, 2009. We have had over a thousand page views and 241 unique visitors. A lot of that thanks goes to you, for coming to the site and reading what we have here. We are also pleased to see that a good portion of you are coming back to the site, even when there are only about a dozen actually subscribed.

This is amazing.  The amount of support has been overwhelming and humbling.  Thank you.

There have been a couple small changes to the site.  The “Casting Call” post was “stickied.”  Meaning it will stay in the number one spot until the auditions are over.  This is make sure that for everyone who wants to see the info, it will be there to be seen.

Also, we have taken the liberty to have the site create a daily post that just lists our Twitter posts for that day.  It’s pretty cool, because Twitter is a great tool for posting quick updates and pictures of our process.  Now, if you aren’t on Twitter, you can still see what we’ve been up to between these blog posts.

The actual pre-production process is going very well.  We are VERY close to finishing the final drafts of the script.  We just have to hammer out a couple pages of dialog, get our actors, get a read-through done, and boom, we can start on principle photography.  There’s still a lot of work, but a ton of fun left to have.

Saturdays and Sundays in April will be our primary shooting days.  We may have a couple of Friday shooting days if our schedules can handle it, but that will be primarily up to what our actors can swing.

Recruitment has gone very well, as I’m sure many of you know.  We went to several classes on UCM campus and gave our five minute (or so) spiel about the movie and what/who we’re looking for.  It was a pretty great experience because we saw many upon many heads and ears perk up at the mention of the opportunity to act or crew in a movie being made around Warrensburg, MO.  Your excitement is very much our excitement.  This movie would be VERY difficult to make if we didn’t have people like you behind us, supporting this crazy project we started.

We greatly appreciate subscribers and comments.  We know there are a LOT of you that visit the site every day and most of you stay here at least a couple minutes.  Maybe we’ll start doing little contests here and there.  Maybe we post video updates rather than text.  Give your thoughts.  Get those fingers typing and leave a comment or seven.  We really want to hear from you and get your feedback.

We have added the pictures from our first round of location scouting.  What we found, blew us away and we decided to use the location for the movie.

To see what we found, just check and click the Stills page up there above this post.  The pictures were taken by Jerry White and myself, with Allison Pullum’s drool-inducing Canon EOS 5D Mark II.  She also used her awesome photography skills to make them look good.  Check out her work.

UPDATE (Feb. 22, 2009): There is still some work to be done on the gallery.  It uses SimpleViewer and was constructed with Lightroom.  We just need to figure out how to get a link back to the site embedded inside the viewer.  Shouldn’t be too difficult, but for now, just stick with your back button.

Jerry informed me that there have been many of you having issues subscribing by email to 2243themovie.com.

I, personally, haven’t been able to recreate this problem, but I would like to try to fix it for those of you having issues.

I just tested the subscription service a few minutes ago and it appears to be working, but if you are getting an error message, take a screen capture or copy and paste it into an email to anthony@2243themovie.com.  Also include as much information about your computer as you can.  Things like operating system (Windows XP, Vista, Mac OSX, etc.), the browser you’re using (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), all that stuff.

I will try to figure out what is going on and I will post this same message on the site.