Peter Jackson and his team on The Hobbit are about to do something no major production has done to date: give you, the fans, unprecedented access into the production process. Most impressively, you’ll be seeing it as it happens. It makes us wonder what will be left when the DVD comes out, but right now we’re not worried about that. For now it’s a nice little treat for Hobbit fans to get a look inside the process.

This might be the neatest film-related thing that will happen on the web this year.

Watch the first 10-minute video blog below, courtesy of Peter Jackson himself.

The Hobbit is currently shooting in New Zealand. You can keep current with the production blogs on the film’s official Facebook page.