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

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!!

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.

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!

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.

Hi, everyone.  I have not made a post on here yet, and thought it was time to break my silence and introduce myself to our loyal supporters. lol.  I’m Allie.  Ta Da! I heard about this in July when Jerry and Tony were going to have this be 5 minutes, and became apart of this adventure in October-November.

So enough of that, let’s get down to the information that you all want to know about; the current events with the movie.  Wednesday we worked on dialog and today, we went on an exciting hunt to find and reserve a room for auditions.  After going through many different people and departments, we found the spot. Little did we know that even being students here we have to pay to get a room in the union.  Hmmm makes you wonder where that tuition is really going?

So we did finally find a room in the library,  for the audition dates which will be march 4, 2009 and march 5, 2009.  So posters and an update with the exact room and times will be up soon.

Today we went on a location scouting and took quite a few pre-production stills of different locations we will and are thinking about using. So Tony will have them up pretty soon, I think it was decided on Tuesday. so check those out!!

So that is all I have right now.  Not bad for my first post.  Keep a look out for updates to the site or Facebook on the movie so you know whats going on.  Thanks for the support!!

Allie T.