Hey, everybody! Wanted to let everyone know what's going on:

Summer's here...which has freed up my post-production crew again. The end of this last semester has been a real bear (for them; I graduated, so it was a cakewalk for me), and work on the final two stages of the flick floundered and stagnated a bit:

1) The color grade halted while Bird and I moved out of our old house and into our new one. As of yesterday, she's taken over as the official colorist on Marlon, and we're putting in 3 - 5 hours a day together to get the grade done. (It's actually a lot of fun: an aspect of filmmaking we can work on together without trying to kill each other. See "Married to Marlon, Parts I-V")
2) Dan, official sound guy of Marlon, finishing up his degree, understandably had to set the Sound Design aside and focus on his classes. In the past few weeks, however, he's helped complete the constructing of a professional sound studio and will be resuming work on both the sound design and the recording/integration of the score as soon as the studio is officially done.

So.

It's been brought to my attention that the original timeline for receiving the perks promised was July of last year. I'm sorry it's taken us so long to put this movie together, and that I'm so far past due on delivering the finished product (and all the ancillary swag), but the end is coming, along with a slew of Digital Copies, DVDs, CDs, and T-Shirts. I've given a strict completion date deadline--August 31st--and if it takes us longer than that to finish this thing, I'll probably jump off a bridge.
(I don't think it'll come to that. We're mighty close right now.)

SO. Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding. Making a 90-minute, festival-ready Black Comedy Horror, then writing the entire score yourself, editing yourself (color correct by Tyler LaTendresse, color grade by Bird Peterson: Love you, hon (not YOU, Tyler: you're getting married, you dog, you)), while one mad, brilliant man takes on a Dolby 5.1 surround sound audio design by himself...well...

It's harder than I thought it would be. And it's taken longer. And it's been infinitely more rewarding. Because now I know what I can do, and that what I can do is amazing.

What we can do is amazing. Because I couldn't have done any of this without you and your support. All of you.

I can see the finish line, there at the end of this summer, and we're all going to cross it together.

--Max Peterson
May 18th, 2015