Announcement Time

Oh man. We're finally ready to go.

The Marble Hornet Season 2 DVDs will go on sale over on the website this Thursday, February 16. They will be the same price as the Season 1 DVD ($11.95 + S&H). We've been working on getting everything in order for it for the past couple of months, and are really pleased with how it looks.

Here's what's on it:

• Entry #27-52 and all season 2 ToTheArk videos. Since this season was a lot longer than than the first, the entries now span both discs.
• Full commentary by me, Joseph, and Tim. It's not as drunk as last time, so it's a bit more informative.
• Blooper reel edited together by me this time. No duck quack.
• Deleted version of Entry #37 with a quick introduction by Joseph and I. (The entry itself isn't canon)
• Setting up the shot used in Entry #45 and the first kind of unorganized "rehearsal" of it.
• The "foley work" of getting the flashlight-hitting-skull sound effect used in Entry #33. "Work" is used very lightly here.
• A timelapse of one of the masks being made.
• All the season 2 tweets.
• And an extra special surprise that I may or may not have already mentioned on this blog.

(And to those wondering, the creator of this season's fantastic DVD art was the talented Mr. Keith Pickering. Go give him high fives!)
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Along with the new DVDs, we've also got another little something going on sale Thursday.

We were always kind of on the fence about printing MH tshirts. However, there's been a huge number of requests for them, and we didn't want to keep refusing them forever if it's something people actually want. Now that we've had some time to warm up to it, we're ready to have them available.

We wanted to keep them as minimalist as possible in their design, so the print is only on the front of the shirt. They feel similar to American Apparel, so they're very comfy. They'll be priced at $12.95 + S&H. And the sizes available are small through extra large.

There will also be the choice of a package deal if you want, with both the season 1 and 2 DVDs as well as one of the shirt designs for $32.95 + S&H.

And that basically wraps it up. Thank you so much for any purchases you decide to make, as it helps us fund season 3 and all the other stuff we're working on! And if you don't want to buy anything, that's cool too, just watching the things we do is plenty of support to keep us going!

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Kami-Con goings-on

While we will be wandering around Kami Con all weekend, we're only scheduled to do one panel, and that will be tomorrow night at 11pm in the Forum Room, which is upstairs in the Ferguson Center at UA. We'll keep things laid back and just kind of chat for an hour about how we make Marble Hornets and stuff we've learned along the way, time permitting we'll also do a general Q&A. If you're thinking of coming, please do. Tim will let you touch his face or something probably.

After that, we'll be around for the rest of the weekend either at our booth signing stuff and selling season 1 DVDs, or going to the other neato panels, especially anything involving our little sweetie pie Little Kuriboh.

To see all the other stuff going on, here's the full schedule. See you there!

DVD and Season 3

We got what was essentially the first draft of the Season 2 DVD in the mail last week. For the first attempt, it wasn't bad at all.

We totally nailed the box art though. Don't change a thing.

There were a few problems with the overall video quality that needed to be fixed, and the audio commentary slowly got out of sync with the video, with it being nearly a full minute off at the end of it all. We also wanted to tweak the menus a little bit. I can't really get any more specific without spoiling exactly what it's going to look like, but I can say with confidence that the overall quality is much better than the previous DVD. Fixing the video quality took a little longer than expected so we're getting the next evaluation copy tomorrow. Hopefully everything will be good to greenlight for printing!

Joseph, Tim, and I are writing a little bit of Season 3 every day. It's pretty tough to try and tie things together for the final season, but we're slowly getting it all organized. From what we have so far, it's looking to be merging the found-footage style of Season 1 with the detective style of Season 2. Can't wait to get started on it!

Next of Con

Sorry this is kind of last minute. We literally found out about it yesterday, but we'll be attending Kami-Con in our own quaint little town of Tuscaloosa, AL from February 3rd to the 5th, so if you missed us at GMX, there's another chance! We haven't decided what kind of panel we'll be doing yet, but it will most likely be a laid back Q&A like the ones we did at GMX in October. I'm pretty sure we'll also have a booth to sell Season 1 DVDs. I do know that we'll be seeing our buddy Little Kuriboh, of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged (and Concrete Giraffes) fame, for his birthday bash on the 3rd! We'll give him hugs and tickles and you can too.

More info as we get it.

A Very Special Feature

I'm very happy to announce that this trailer is going to be on the Season 2 DVD.

"Dee-vom-dees"

Tim, Joseph, and I got together a few nights ago and got the season 2 commentary recorded and sent off to the big cheese. We did two takes back to back of the entire season, which is significantly longer all the way through compared to season 1. We started around 10pm and finished at 5am, which was the exact same finishing time for season 1's commentary. Weird. I stayed up an hour or two more getting everything packed up and sending the audio off to the mysterious, far-away land of California for review. All signs point to it being finalized for the DVD! I feel so triumphant.

We tried to keep things lighthearted for the commentary while talking more about the actual shooting process since people seemed a bit split on the slightly-drunk content of the season 1 commentary. Hopefully we can make everyone happy this time.

There's still a few more things to check off the todo list before we can start taking orders, so stick with us. We're aiming to have it released a bit before season 3 starts.

Hope all of you little bowls of sauerkraut have a neato Christmas!