It's this weekend, dudes. Hope to see a lot of you there!
Here's our schedule of stuff:
Opening Ceremony
Friday 7pm-8pm
Champion Ballroom
-We'll try our best to be just as awkward as last year when we're introduced.
Orion Slave Auction
Celebrity D&D:
Saturday 2pm-3pm
Palomino-Quarter Horse-Mustang
-Us and some actual famous folk will try to cram in as much swording and sorcering into one hour as possible. This will be the second time we've ever played D&D, by the way. I'm hoping for a beautiful train wreck.
Marble Hornets Q&A
Saturday 4pm-5pm
Palomino-Quarter Horse-Mustang
-Come ask Tim, Joseph, and I what our favorite colors are and then watch us argue about which breakfast cereal is the best. I'm not kidding, that will probably happen.
Season 2 Live Commentary
Sunday 1am-3am (!!!)
Franklin
-Listen as we desperately try to remember funny things about shooting season 2 off the top of our heads. This was totally awesome last year because we packed the room they gave us and everyone was so rad. Let's do that again this year!
Full schedule here
Whenever we're not at one of the above things, you'll most likely be able to find us at our table in the dealer room. We'll be selling both season 1 and 2 DVDs as well as some shirts. As before, we'll sign anything you want, for exactly no dollars.
Also planning on having a few props from Marble Hornets on display at the table as well. Like a certain mask and a certain doll, maybe. Stop by and see!
And finally, we're going to have an extra special guest there with us too. Who could it be? I'M NOT TELLING.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Moving along
Met up with Tim a few nights ago to do a little bit more writing for MH. We focused mainly on the ending this time and then worked our way backwards to where we are now, refining things that were already written and making connections. It's all coming together slowly but surely. We made some really great progress and added a few more plot points that I can't wait to show all of you. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately? I dunno), it's fairly far off. I'm all antsy now!
We shot some footage for Entry #63 yesterday too. We've been having a few issues with it here and there. That, coupled with some rewrites to it, has made the wait for it (again) longer than we anticipated. But it'll be ready to go very soon! After that, we'll be right back into shooting Entry #64. We hit this little speedbump every season, it seems. Things like school and work and other things all coalesce into one annoying blob of impediment. But I think we're at long last getting over it.
Tim and I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta a few weeks ago and ran into some MH fans a good number of times. We even saw a handful of folks cosplaying as "Masky" and "Hoody"! Seeing stuff like that is still mind blowing to me, but I'm so happy to be making something that people like enough to do that for.
Also we met and pseudo-hung-out with George Lowe, the guy that did the voice of Space Ghost on Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I got possibly the greatest autograph ever out of him.
We also snuck into Mindcrack extraordinare Guude's video of the con (around the 1:38 mark). We somehow pulled off co-op air quotes in it. We didn't even plan on that. I'm so proud. Also the background matches our shirts. How does that happen.
So yeah, I'm leaving out like a ton of other things that we did there to keep this from sounding like "What I did on my summer vacation". Needless to say it was lots of exhausting fun. I see it as a kind of a warm up for GMX at the end of October, to get us in the con-mindset. Speaking of which, are you coming to that? I'd give you such a high five if you did.
We're planning on making another promo video for it too, by the way. Similar to what we did last year, but maybe even more stupid. It's hard to tell with these types of things. It should be on the internet at some point in early October.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that Entry #63 is coming soon.
We shot some footage for Entry #63 yesterday too. We've been having a few issues with it here and there. That, coupled with some rewrites to it, has made the wait for it (again) longer than we anticipated. But it'll be ready to go very soon! After that, we'll be right back into shooting Entry #64. We hit this little speedbump every season, it seems. Things like school and work and other things all coalesce into one annoying blob of impediment. But I think we're at long last getting over it.
Tim and I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta a few weeks ago and ran into some MH fans a good number of times. We even saw a handful of folks cosplaying as "Masky" and "Hoody"! Seeing stuff like that is still mind blowing to me, but I'm so happy to be making something that people like enough to do that for.
Also we met and pseudo-hung-out with George Lowe, the guy that did the voice of Space Ghost on Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I got possibly the greatest autograph ever out of him.
No, thank YOU.
We also snuck into Mindcrack extraordinare Guude's video of the con (around the 1:38 mark). We somehow pulled off co-op air quotes in it. We didn't even plan on that. I'm so proud. Also the background matches our shirts. How does that happen.
So yeah, I'm leaving out like a ton of other things that we did there to keep this from sounding like "What I did on my summer vacation". Needless to say it was lots of exhausting fun. I see it as a kind of a warm up for GMX at the end of October, to get us in the con-mindset. Speaking of which, are you coming to that? I'd give you such a high five if you did.
We're planning on making another promo video for it too, by the way. Similar to what we did last year, but maybe even more stupid. It's hard to tell with these types of things. It should be on the internet at some point in early October.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that Entry #63 is coming soon.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Hold Up
Really happy with the reception of MH Entry #61. Tim is one dedicated dude, and really wanted to get the "fit" he went into to exactly how he wanted. He asked for playback after nearly every single take to make sure it was exactly right. Time consuming? Very. But if it made the final video better, I was more than happy to oblige.
SPEAKING OF WHICH. The next entry will have a bit longer of a wait on it than what we initially anticipated. I've been gone since early Wednesday on a freelance shoot in Jacksonville, FL that I won't be back from until Saturday afternoon. We were aiming to shoot the next entry right after 61 was posted and have it ready to go right before I left, but decided on a few rewrites on what we had written for it a while back, which led to the schedule being shifted forward. We went out to the location a few times before I left and got some test footage that I think looks very good. We just needed a bit more time to plan things out before going forward with shooting it for real, but I'm confident it'll make everything better, and hopefully worth the wait! We'll get right back to shooting as soon as I get home. No date as of yet on the next entry, but it won't be long!
SPEAKING OF WHICH. The next entry will have a bit longer of a wait on it than what we initially anticipated. I've been gone since early Wednesday on a freelance shoot in Jacksonville, FL that I won't be back from until Saturday afternoon. We were aiming to shoot the next entry right after 61 was posted and have it ready to go right before I left, but decided on a few rewrites on what we had written for it a while back, which led to the schedule being shifted forward. We went out to the location a few times before I left and got some test footage that I think looks very good. We just needed a bit more time to plan things out before going forward with shooting it for real, but I'm confident it'll make everything better, and hopefully worth the wait! We'll get right back to shooting as soon as I get home. No date as of yet on the next entry, but it won't be long!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Slenderized
First of all, and I know I've said this multiple times in other places, thanks so much for all of the feedback (positive and negative) on Entry #60. It was a real challenge to shoot, but seeing such a big response to it has been completely amazing and really puts wind in our sails. I wish I could tell you everything about shooting it, but I don't think I can do it justice in this format. I guess it will have to wait for the DVD commentary, or when we get off on some kind of tangent the next time we do a livestream.
Oh by the way, speaking of doing livestreams.
I've been getting a ton of requests for us to stream a playthrough of Slender for all of you fine folks. While I'm sure it would be fun, Joseph, Tim, and I talked about it a few days ago and decided that it would be better if we didn't do so. Not because it's a bad or uninteresting game. On the contrary, I played it myself a few days ago and may or may not have removed my headphones after a certain entity suddenly appeared right in front of me. It's really cool that such a reaction can come from such a simple premise. I just feel that the magic of the game comes from playing it alone, completely immersed, and that a lot of that magic would probably be lost if you had to hear us goofing off while playing it. It's also not a particularly long game by design, so it'd end up being a pretty short event after we played it (and no doubt failed horribly) a few times. So we'll leave this one to you guys for the time being.
But hey, if you're itching to watch someone else play it, I'm sure Mr. Pewdiepie has you covered.
Oh by the way, speaking of doing livestreams.
I've been getting a ton of requests for us to stream a playthrough of Slender for all of you fine folks. While I'm sure it would be fun, Joseph, Tim, and I talked about it a few days ago and decided that it would be better if we didn't do so. Not because it's a bad or uninteresting game. On the contrary, I played it myself a few days ago and may or may not have removed my headphones after a certain entity suddenly appeared right in front of me. It's really cool that such a reaction can come from such a simple premise. I just feel that the magic of the game comes from playing it alone, completely immersed, and that a lot of that magic would probably be lost if you had to hear us goofing off while playing it. It's also not a particularly long game by design, so it'd end up being a pretty short event after we played it (and no doubt failed horribly) a few times. So we'll leave this one to you guys for the time being.
But hey, if you're itching to watch someone else play it, I'm sure Mr. Pewdiepie has you covered.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Un-troubles
Howdy everyone. Figured I'd give all of you a few updates on what all has been going on over here.
As many of you have been expecting, some things have recently come up with all of us that have temporarily gotten in the way of shooting/editing new MH entries. Tim started his summer classes a while ago, so that, mixed with his job has been rough to schedule around. He's going into the same major that I had though, which is pretty awesome. Joseph has been getting more music gigs that have made him need to be away more, too. As for me, my brother is getting married this Saturday, so I've been running back and fourth a lot from my house to my mom's helping out with all of that.
Anyway, all of that being said, we'll be getting back to shooting very very soon. All three of us are meeting up later tonight to plan everything out for the week. I'm aiming to get things shot either tomorrow or Tuesday, even though that's looking less and less likely today due to the crazy amount of storms Alabama has been getting. Regardless, shooting at some point this week is imperative. If it's soon enough, I'm going to attempt to marathon edit it all before I have to be back for the wedding. If that doesn't happen, I can guarantee you new stuff the following week.
We understand things were left off on a bit of a cliffhanger, but we won't leave you guys hanging for too much longer. I hope it'll be worth the wait. One of the things I was very excited to shoot earlier is coming up soon, so stay tuned!
As many of you have been expecting, some things have recently come up with all of us that have temporarily gotten in the way of shooting/editing new MH entries. Tim started his summer classes a while ago, so that, mixed with his job has been rough to schedule around. He's going into the same major that I had though, which is pretty awesome. Joseph has been getting more music gigs that have made him need to be away more, too. As for me, my brother is getting married this Saturday, so I've been running back and fourth a lot from my house to my mom's helping out with all of that.
Anyway, all of that being said, we'll be getting back to shooting very very soon. All three of us are meeting up later tonight to plan everything out for the week. I'm aiming to get things shot either tomorrow or Tuesday, even though that's looking less and less likely today due to the crazy amount of storms Alabama has been getting. Regardless, shooting at some point this week is imperative. If it's soon enough, I'm going to attempt to marathon edit it all before I have to be back for the wedding. If that doesn't happen, I can guarantee you new stuff the following week.
We understand things were left off on a bit of a cliffhanger, but we won't leave you guys hanging for too much longer. I hope it'll be worth the wait. One of the things I was very excited to shoot earlier is coming up soon, so stay tuned!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Report Time
Just noticed it's been about a month since my last update. Sorry about that. There's not a whole heck of a lot to report at the moment. We're currently in the thick of things right now, trying to shoot, edit, and post entries on a weekly basis is kind of what we've been aiming for with varying degrees of success, as you can probably tell.
Speaking of editing, after having another rendering incident similar to what happened at the end of last season, I finally did away with editing MH on Sony Vegas and shifted it over to Adobe Premiere. I've used it to edit everything outside of MH for years now, but didn't really know how to recreate some of the effects I had used in Vegas, so I was always a bit reluctant to make the move. But now, Entry #54 and on has been put together with it and it's been going much more smoothly. I think I was asking too much of Vegas, especially with the longer or more effects heavy entries, since I'm pretty sure it's barely considered prosumer software. So fingers crossed at no more fake outs with missing upload times.
We've shot a portion of the next entry already, and will probably be going out to finish it off early Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Despite the part where I have to roll out of bed at 6 in the morning (making sure Joseph is up is another matter entirely), I actually kind of prefer early morning shoots. The last one we did was Entry #51, I believe. It was very laid back, and nice and cool outside. I'd go so far as to say it was the most relaxing shoot we've ever done. Hopefully that trend will continue when we go out next.
Anyway, one last thing. Don't know if I've said this yet, and if I haven't it's long overdue, but I really want to thank all of you for supporting us by buying the DVDs. Sales continue to be steady, which is a huge HUGE morale boost for us over here. So thank you so much for enabling us to continue doing what we enjoy doing.
Be sure to high five your moms today too, by the way.
Speaking of editing, after having another rendering incident similar to what happened at the end of last season, I finally did away with editing MH on Sony Vegas and shifted it over to Adobe Premiere. I've used it to edit everything outside of MH for years now, but didn't really know how to recreate some of the effects I had used in Vegas, so I was always a bit reluctant to make the move. But now, Entry #54 and on has been put together with it and it's been going much more smoothly. I think I was asking too much of Vegas, especially with the longer or more effects heavy entries, since I'm pretty sure it's barely considered prosumer software. So fingers crossed at no more fake outs with missing upload times.
We've shot a portion of the next entry already, and will probably be going out to finish it off early Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Despite the part where I have to roll out of bed at 6 in the morning (making sure Joseph is up is another matter entirely), I actually kind of prefer early morning shoots. The last one we did was Entry #51, I believe. It was very laid back, and nice and cool outside. I'd go so far as to say it was the most relaxing shoot we've ever done. Hopefully that trend will continue when we go out next.
Anyway, one last thing. Don't know if I've said this yet, and if I haven't it's long overdue, but I really want to thank all of you for supporting us by buying the DVDs. Sales continue to be steady, which is a huge HUGE morale boost for us over here. So thank you so much for enabling us to continue doing what we enjoy doing.
Be sure to high five your moms today too, by the way.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Quick Break
Now that Entry #55 has been posted, I just wanted to let everyone know that we'll be going on a short, week long break. I'm spending the first part of this week back in my hometown, helping my parents move out of their house. After that, I'm leaving for Panama City on Wednesday for some freelance work with a shoot going on down there (no, it's not with some MTV spring break thing, I promise). I'll be back in Alabama Saturday afternoon, hopefully we'll get back to shooting the next entry soon after that.
There's also a little something headed for the other channel that should be done pretty soon.
It's stupid, which should come as no surprise.
There's also a little something headed for the other channel that should be done pretty soon.
It's stupid, which should come as no surprise.
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