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
Jun 29
Hi everyone its been a long time since I have left a post on here. But I have been swamped with work and other problems came up. However I am pleased to be able to tell everyone a part of 0:22:43 that we were give $100, thanks to The Crestwood Aquatic Center. This was a place that for the past 6 summers I would work at. The people there were excited to hear about 0:22:43 and kept updated with the website. The managers at the Aquatic Center are always interested in what their college student employees are doing in and out of school. When I told them that we needed donations, they seemed happy to help out and be a part of the experience.
From everyone at 0:22:43 Thank you!!
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-
So, we finally did it. We wrapped principal photography on 0:22:43!
Sunday ended up being a great day with only a couple of potholes along the road. This won’t be a full-fledged post as I am going to force the other two to do a video recap of the production. Keep an eye out for that Thursday afternoon. As we say every time, but never gets any less true: we had an absolutely fantastic and talented cast along with one of the hardest working crews ever. We look forward to working with you again.
There are a lot of photos out and around the internet from the set. If you could, please post a link to your album(s) in the comments. I’ll throw mine (Anthony’s) up right now, but I didn’t have time to take very many pictures.
Anthony’s 0:22:43 Flickr Album
Anthony’s 0:22:43 Facebook Album (same pictures)
WARNING! NERDY SITE-RELATED STUFF NEXT:
One last thing! The site is doing well. The visit count is petering off, but Monday marked our 1,000th unique visitor to the site. What does that mean? Well, we have had over 1,000 individual people visit this site and they are spending, on average, over two and half minutes here. That is just absolutely amazing considering we have had only ONE day where we had no visitors and that was Saturday, February 7. Since then, we have had good days and bad days, but always, has there been at least one person checking the site. I know that our visit numbers would be much higher if we had had the time and energy to post more often.
Thank you so much for helping make our dream a reality.
Remember. Thursday there will be a production wrap-up video come hell or high water.
Apr 15
