We're going on an adventure!
🕑 Added 2018-03-02 21:39:14 +0000 UTC For those of you who saw on Twitter that I'm getting on a plane tomorrow to fly 20+ hours to where it's literally summer... well, I wasn't kidding.So tomorrow begins our sojourn to the island nation of New Zealand to shoot our video essay-umentary about the Hobbit on location, the reasons for which will become obvious, well, upon its release (beginning in late March). Thank you all for your continued support, allowing us to put in real effort for our productions (including buying decent equipment and hiring a skeleton crew). I promise the Hobbit feet make sense. Actually I don't. But one never knows.
We are going to try to utilize Patreon's newfangled Lens app while we're there to give a live update for patrons (keyword: try. Obviously I've never done it), and I'm sure nothing will go wrong and everything will be fine, unlike with the Hunchback shoot where we missed our flight back from Paris.
Yeah. That happened.
Comments
Nick Ulanowski
I’d honestly pay to hear you as a guest on the SinCat. That’s the Cinema Sins podcast. You can criticize everything about Cinema Sins and what they do. Barrett just said on Twitter he’s open to inviting a detractor. I’d love for this to happen!
Amelie Marandet
Is one of the battery called Kate Winslet ? ... what are the harddrive called ? ... are those things on the top left hobbit feet ? cause from this angle it looks suspiciously like a fleshy hole with fur on top and i'd rather not say what i briefly thought it was.
Adrian DeZendegui
I wouldn't mind if you just went to your local park to do this, or use green screens
Eric Riley
I am very excited to see what you produce out of this trip - and hope you have a wonderful time down there! I spent several weeks in Christchurch in the late 90's, and it was lovely!
Sterling Treadwell
There and Back Again, a Tale of Lindsey Ellis. May you be of good health and well fed in your journey. And may the flight not vanish forever into another dimension.
Felicitas
that is extremely cool and I hope you are having a wonderful time. Def looking forward to those hobbit eps!
Have fun and be careful!
Rodrigo V. Perez
Hope you have a good trip. Apparently NZ is more or less the antipodes of France, you guys are going places!
George Dodd
Ahhh so excited that you’ll be here! Hope you have fun, and that our myriad infrastructure woes don’t mess you about too much...
This seems like such an amazing adventure, can't wait to see the content!
Kirkeyressa
Omg so happy for you and the crew! Hope everything goes well <3
Gabe
Yay! Good luck on the shoot Lindsay!
Have fun!
YASSS. THATS MY DREAM DESTINATION. ❤❤❤ can't wait to see what you do.
Would you consider having a meetup in New Zealand?
Luninareph
Good luck!!!! :D
:-O Welcome to New Zealand, it's great to have you down here!
Klil H. Neori
This is going to be so awesome. Have a safe trip!
Callen
This is spectacularly splendid, Lindsay Ellis! I think we could all use a little more New Zealand, even if just through a window of your much appreciated videos.
Yay awesome you're coming down to this part of the world :) Err yeah as for things that might be a problem, there is a train strike going on in Auckland (which is our main city and is the closest hub to where they filmed the Hobbiton sequences) and an impending bus strike is due soon :O! If you're going around the North Island in a rented car that probably won't matter though but something to be aware of just in case!
How is this going to work? :-O
Jacqueline Pineda
Good luck, Lindsay! I hope you guys have a great time! I can't wait to see the video!
Conspiracy Keanu: What if Lindsay is secretly a massive Pokemon Go fan and this is just a way to catch the region exclusive pokemon Relicanth.
Mel Miniatures
Enjoy your summer hemisphere!
Wow, that is a lof kit.
Welcome to NZ! Please don't treat us as a meme country, and I hope the rain holds clear (this land of Summer gave half of our hottest month up to continual showers in January).
Lindsay Ellis
Light some incense that our flight out of NYC doesn't get cancelled.... yikes
Cool!
Good luck! Excited to see the results in March-April!
This should be fun. Good luck and be careful!
SuperDezzy
Stuck in Paris, I can think of worse things... So jealous that you're visiting the Shire in New Zealand!
Since Jackson turned a 300 or so page book into a 9 hour epic, I expect to see a video essay that's about 18 hours long please. If you feel your essay is going at a good pace be sure to deliberately slow it down!! Looking forward to late March!
Alex Mayzlakh
Have a pleasant trip
James Conway
Ooh, an epic adventure. Yay!
That is so awesome, I hope you guys have a great time! :)
Clare (Agrippina) Belshaw
Thats soo cool! Im even more excited for the videos now!!! If you decide to pop over to Australia (Sydney specifically) please do a meet up!!!!
Filmmaker IQ
Break a leg!
Maxfield Stanton
have so much fun!!!
Toryana Frazier
Be safe!
Lindsay literally going to New Zealand for us😍