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-

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!

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.

What happened to Jess?!

So, we are wrapped for shooting Days 9 and 10.  This leaves two more full cast/crew shooting days to finish the script.  Not a problem.  We had some minor speed bumps and just tore them up.  It’s pretty awesome.

To make this block of text a little more interested, we added a little picture taken on set by Anthony’s wife, Lexy.  You know her as the purveyor of Craft Services as well as one of the VERY few commenters on this blog. Hint. Hint.

What happened in this picture?  Come on, I can’t tell you that! You’ll have to wait, watch the movie, and see!

All of our actors are doing an amazing job with their characters and add their own special spins that just astound us everyday.

Our crew is also of no exception.  These guys bust their ass nonstop, all day, every day.  We really appreciate all of the hard work that everyone has put into making this movie.  Really awesome, people!

Of course, the fans.  The real reason we are making this movie is to show all of our supporters.  This roller coaster wouldn’t be worth it if we didn’t have anybody anxiously looking forward to this movie’s premiere.  We really hope and are convinced you will like the work we’ve done.

Still, we could always use more followers!  Don’t forget to pass on the word, we always appreciate new fans.

The next post should cover the final weekend of shooting and include a shooting wrap-up, which should be exciting.  Then, you get read/watch our escapades in editing!  Anthony’s thinking live streaming of the editing room!  Yeah!  Give us your thoughts!  What do you want to see?

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.

Hello everyone this is Jerry. This is my first post since we have launched the site so I thought I better get on here and introduce myself, so hello.

The script is coming along nicely we have just finished a rough draft and are working on some kinks in the dialogue. It has been a long road but it is getting closer to the production part of 0:22:43. We started this thing last July as a 5 minute movie. When we finished that we decided it needed to be longer. So every time we kept adding more and more to the script and now here we are 7 months later, about to go into principal photography.

We have a few things left to do in pre-production and we plan on finishing those up this week. We are meeting twice this week to finish up the paper part of the film. We have some more locations to secure and we have our casting call to still do. We are also working on some movie posters to place up as promotional materials for the film. We hope to finish all of the work this week and hopefully have a casting call in the next two weeks.

Once again thanks for supporting 0:22:43 and keep checking back. We are working extra hard to make this the best film possible, and with awesome people behind us all the way it will only keep getting better. Stay tuned for more updates as they arise and It was nice to meet you all.

Jerry White
www.2243themovie.com