So about that movie

Happy Halloween everyone! Very timely word just came down that this would be the perfect chance to finally share some more news with you about the movie. At long last. I don't know if I'd be able to keep it to myself much longer. Here we go:

-First, the news that will probably put some of you at ease. The movie will not be a continuation of the storyline on the Marble Hornets Youtube channel. That's still set to finish up at the end of season 3, so no cliffhangers that will require you to go to a movie theater to see resolved. Instead, the story of the movie will take place in the same universe as the webseries, and there's definitely a reason for that, but speaking more on that ventures into spoiler territory.

-The movie itself, believe it or not, has already been shot! Remember our super secret trip to LA this summer? That was to visit the set. It was an awesome experience to see everyone bustling around and getting things done. Got to meet and chat for a bit with pretty much everyone on the team, including all the actors that were there that day. Oh yeah, speaking of which...

We happened upon this guy.

-As some of you have already suspected, it's totally true, the one and only Doug Jones is in the movie as The Operator. Yeah man, THAT Doug Jones. He was the nicest guy to meet and hang around with, yet was able to turn instantly unsettling once the cameras were rolling. I can't think of a better person to play the part and am so pumped that it all worked out. Tim is entirely to thank for getting it all started with a simple tweet almost two years ago (!!!)

So that's the three big bits of news for your Halloween enjoyment. We'll no doubt be blabbing on about it at every opportunity at GMX this weekend too, so feel free to bring it up there if you're coming. Release date, trailers, the title of the movie, and more are still yet to be revealed but we're working on getting some more announcements out there sooner than you might think! Thanks as always for sticking around for all this, everyone. More is on the way!

Gee-mex

It's that time of the year again where we pack up lots of stuff and head off to Nashville for GMX! This is pretty much our "home con" and the one we always really look forward to. This year we have more stuff scheduled for us than we've ever had before. Here's what all is going down:

Friday:
Opening Ceremony
6:00pm-7:00pm in Main Events
-The one where we always forget that we have to get up in front of everyone and say something. I doubt this year will be any different.

YouTube Content Creators Panel
7:00pm-8:00pm in Main Events
-Hang around right after opening ceremonies to hear us and other folks talk about this thing called the internet and putting videos on it.

How to Make a Webseries
9:00pm-10:00pm in Franklin
-Our half serious presentation about how we make MH and what all has worked and failed horribly for us. There will be a powerpoint.

Saturday:
Celebrity D&D: The High Adventure Returneth
11:00am-1:00pm in Palomino

-The continuation of our woefully inept adventures in Dungeons that also have Dragons in them. This time there will be some new, awesome people up there with us. I don't think I'm allowed to say who all they are so stop by to find out. We're honored to be their meat shields.

Exterminate Bullying Charity Auction

1:00pm-3:00pm in Palomino

-We'll be auctioning off another hand painted mask from Marble Hornets here, as well as lunch/dinner with us at any time during the con. Since we're in the final season of MH, all signs point to the mask being the last one that will ever be available for auction at GMX. All proceeds go to The Evolve Project, which is a non-profit focused on anti-bullying with middle school aged kids. It's a subject that I'm personally pretty familiar with, so it'd be really great to see lots of people come out and help support this organization.

Marble Hornets Q&A

5:00pm-6:00pm in Palomino

-Ask us questions about stuff. If no questions are in attendance we will discuss Sonic the Hedgehog lore.

Marble Hornets Season 3 Commentary
8:00pm-9:00pm in Palomino
-We have less time for this one than usual due to scheduling compromises, which is alright because we thought it might be kind of weird to do all of season 3 even though it's not finished yet. Also it's not at 2 in the morning like it was last year. That's a plus.

Sunday:

We'll be at our table all day until...

Closing Ceremonies

5:00pm-6:00pm in Main Events

-Come say bye to us before we haphazardly shove all our con stuff back into our cars and ride off into the sunset.

As usual, anytime we're not at one of these panels or eating, you can find us at our booth selling DVDs, shirts (for real this time), and stickers that I made and had printed especially for GMX that you can slap all over your cars and game boys. Signatures on anything and everything are free.

I'll be keeping my twitter updated during the con, so keep an eye on that if you wanna. I'll tweet out our booth location as soon as we find where it is.

Oh yeah, and our super secret special guest from last year will be returning this year too. Sssshhhhh...

A dump of news

Whoops forgot to update this for a while there.

I was really stoked to get the latest MH entry out. It was a heck of a shoot, all done in one night, but it turned out great and Jessica was easy to work with as usual. I honestly wasn't expecting a non-reluctant yes when I asked if she would be okay with Tim carrying her over his shoulder down some stairs while maintaining a limp, but that's exactly what I got. Everything was smooth sailing from then on, despite being so time consuming but that's unavoidable for really involved shoots like this. I think we started around 10pm and didn't fully finish until about 5:30am. It was tiring to say the least, but we're all pretty proud of the end product!

I've been writing the script for Entry #77 all this week and we're aiming to shoot this weekend. Tim is working on his own video project for school that he needs to have done by early next week, so there's a possibility that it'll overlap with MH filming. That's totally fine though, it should take priority for him anyway, and won't really push things back all that majorly. Basically what I'm saying is that the next entry is being worked on and is coming soon.

In my free time, I'm also working on an animated short, which I mentioned over on my Tumblr some time ago. Obviously my initial estimation of having it done in "two to three weeks" was way off, but I'm still working on it! Tim is doing all the sound design for it now too, which I'm pretty excited about. It'll be over on the THAC channel....um...whenever it's done. I'm afraid of estimating exact dates now.

We're also in the process of getting things ready for GMX, which starts November 1st. We're working on restocking our DVD and tshirt supplies after selling a lot more than expected at Connecticon (which was awesome!). We'll definitely have the shirts this time too, which we didn't have last year for various silly reasons. I'm also kicking around the idea of having a limited run of semi-GMX-exclusive shirts there. They'll only be available at GMX, but we'll try and figure out a way to sell any extras we have online. I'm thinking it'll either be something related to THAC shorts (like this), or something related to ToTheArk. Not sure yet. Any suggestions?

And finally, speaking of cons, I've been getting a lot of messages recently about what cons Joseph, Tim, and I will be at after GMX. As of right now, we don't have any others set in stone after that. BUT, if there's a convention near you that you'd like to see us at, by all means email or facebook or tweet or telegraph the folks in charge about it. If they'd like an email address to reach us at, mhtroyw@gmail.com is the one. Hopefully this doesn't sound like I'm asking all of you to do the work for us. It's just really difficult to pinpoint the countless cons out there that might have interest in having us around. Thanks a bundle for getting us to all the places we've been to so far too <3

Lots of new stuff coming!

Connectingcon

We're currently working as quickly as we can to get the next MH Entry done by the time we leave for Connecticon next week. It might be a photo finish but I'm pretty confident that it's doable. That's assuming the weather cooperates, which always kind of seems to be a crap shoot around here. I'm also working on a couple of new things for the THAC channel in my spare time, but those probably won't be finished until after we get back since most of our time is dedicated to getting the next MH out the door. Regardless, it's nice to have so much coming up!

Speaking of which, here's our schedule for Connecticon:

Marble Hornets Q&A:

Friday 11:30am - 1:00pm
Special Events Room 1 (Marriott Ballroom ABCDE)

-Come ask us stuff about anything and we'll try to answer as vaguely as possible.

How to Make a Webseries:
Sunday 10:00am - 11:30pm

Special Events Room 1 (Marriot Ballroom ABCDE)

-We'll talk about what works for us when it comes to shooting Marble Hornets. We have a powerpoint for this so you know we're the real deal.

When we're not at either of these, you can find us at our table in the Online Media Guest hall surrounded by all the other awesome people there. It's in "Exhibit Hall B, near the Dealer's Room and the Artists' Colony", according to the CTcon website.

We don't know specifically which table we'll be at, and probably won't until we actually get there. Keep an eye on my twitter and I'll be sure to mention it on there as soon as we find out. We'll be selling DVDs and shirts, and giving away our signatures on whatever you throw at us, so stop by!

"Can we go on a Nic Cage safari?"

Two fun things coming up for us soon. Early Saturday morning the three of us will be hopping on a plane to fly out to lovely Los Angeles for super top secret things that probably involve movies and definitely involves jet lag.  The farthest west I've ever been up until now is Phoenix, so this will be a whole new ordeal for me. Our hotel is a couple of blocks down from places like the Chinese Theater so we'll probably just be kitsch absorbing tourists on our down time, but if any of you have suggestions on stuff to do around that area, let me know! I'll probably be tweeting everything that I'm able to share while we're out there, so if you're down with that, keep an eye on my twitter. Tim and Joseph will likely be doing the same.

Second thing, the very next weekend, we'll be at the Alabama Phoenix Festival in Birmingham with a booth selling shirts and DVDs. We'll also be doing a live commentary and Q&A on Saturday at 8pm in Room 3, and a round table discussion on webseries on Sunday at 1pm in the same room. If you happened to miss us at Kami-Con a few months ago, here's another chance! Also Ernie Hudson is going to be there, which is totally awesome.

Speaking of conventions and totally awesome, don't forget that we'll also be at Connecticon in July! I can't remember if I mentioned that on here or not, but I'm too lazy right now to click the back button to check on it. I'll share more specific info on panels and stuff that we're doing once a few more details have been ironed out. Can't wait to see all you northerner city slickers there. *spittoon*

Hopefully we can find time to squeeze in shooting another entry between all this stuff. Maybe we should just do it in LA and hope no one notices....

I mean it looks almost exactly like Alabama anyway.

Drip drip

Alright, I'm now healed up enough to get back to shooting. Which would make sense, considering Entry #69 was posted a while ago. It was pretty time consuming to shoot, mostly because the red tower location is about an hour's drive away from us. We were smart enough to get more takes than usual, to decrease the chance of driving home and finding out everything we shot sucked or something. It was really strange to go back to the red tower. It's been a good year since I was last there, and even longer since I was there shooting Marble Hornets. It was one of the rare moments where I stopped and thought "Man, we've been doing this for a pretty long time".

A good chunk of Entry #70 has been shot too. There's still a couple of things left, but we're trying to get it finished as soon as possible. I've got a good feeling that the wait between entries will start to gradually get shorter from here on out. As usual, don't quote me on that because it always seems like something crazy comes up every time I'm optimistic about timing.

If all goes according to plan, we'll be going out to begin shooting Entry #71 this weekend! I want to try and squeeze in shooting another couple of Nature Breaks next week too. Gonna be a busy little cupcake, it seems.

In other news, I've had a couple of really interesting phone calls over the past few weeks regarding the movie. Not being able to talk in detail about some of the stuff that's going on is driving me absolutely crazy. There's a bit of news in particular that I'm really excited about sharing with all of you, but I have no idea when I'll be at liberty to do so. I think the only new bit of vague news I'm able to say right now is that principle photography is slated to start relatively soon. I'm constantly asking our contact at Mosaic what new stuff I'm able to share, so hopefully this trickle of information from me can continue. Maybe it can even graduate to a full on steady drip at some point. Who knows.

Afterwards

I'm happy to report that my surgery went off without a hitch last week. Everyone at the hospital was super nice and cut open the side of my head like real pros. The only rough part was having to wake up at 4 in the morning for it.

I'm still in the process of healing up. I had to go back to the hearing clinic earlier this week to get a sponge (!) removed from my ear that was there to widen up my ear canal, which was a pretty odd sensation. I still have some packing in my ear that will be removed April 3rd too. After that, the only thing that's left is packing behind my eardrum that will dissolve away on its own in about a month or two. Once all that is out of the way, I should be able to hear from both sides again. For now everything is still mostly muted, but I can kind of hear myself on my left side when I talk, so that's probably a good sign. Couldn't do that before.

Part of the hair on my left side had to be shaved, so I look a little goofy. I also still need to keep a cotton ball in there at all times. So once my hair has grown back and I no longer have a wad of cotton stuffed in my ear, shooting Marble Hornets can finally commence again. Thanks so much for being patient everyone! I'm spending the downtime writing more detailed outlines of the next few entries, as well as trying to get through my sale-induced, embarrassingly large Steam backlog. Little Inferno was lovely.

Speaking of games, and enough about me, Slender: The Arrival launches this Tuesday! If you haven't preordered yet and were planning on it, get on that! The 60 dollar name-in-the-credits tier may have sold out, but the soundtrack and special editions are still up for grabs. Mark Hadley, the director of the game (as well as the straight up creator of the original game) pulled double duty to compose the soundtrack himself and it sounds really nice. He posted a preview of it over on his youtube channel that you should definitely check out. All of the art that comes with the special edition is also fantastic. Along with looking all pretty, it will also be signed by the entire StA development team, including the three of us! So if that's something you'd be down with, the special edition is the way to go.

More fun news coming soon, so be in touch you sweet little sugarplums.