Depending on when you’re reading this, only just over one week separates us from the sure wonder of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Do you have your ticket yet? Will you be seeing it in IMAX High Frame Rate 3D? RealD 3D? Digital 3D? Standard format? So many choices.

Here’s an easy choice for you: to watch, or to not watch, Peter Jackson‘s latest Production Diary for the movie. Watch, obviously. My favorite part is near the end, with Jackson doing some fun fantastic camera work:

Featurette: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Production Diary 13

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchette, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ian Holm, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Conan Stevens, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Barry Humphries and Benedict Cumberbatch is scheduled to hit the theaters on December 13.