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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#231: Jonah Moran // #HamilFilm Editor // Part Two

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In part two of my conversation with #Hamilfilm editor Jonah Moran: Jonah discusses the natural cinematic language of Hamilton, gives us a peek at how the audio was mixed, and tells which number required so much attention it had to be edited before everything else.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.

0:05.1

Butts and cuts and, and boots and... Hello everyone I'm Jillian. Welcome back to the Hamill cast. This week picks up right

0:21.9

where I left off in episode 2.30 with

0:23.6

Jonah Moran, editor of the Hamel film, which is now streaming on Disney Plus, which is a thing

0:28.2

I still can't believe I can say. Anyway, in episode 2.30 we talk about Jonah's history working with the cabinet, how he got the gig editing the thing,

0:35.3

how Andy Blancham Buehler's choreography affected his editing choices for moments in wait for it and its quiet uptown,

0:40.4

and the super secret security measures put in place to protect the Hamill footage.

0:44.0

But if you're all caught up, let's do this. We're diving right in.

0:47.0

Here's part two of my conversation with Jonah Moran. With Alex, did he come in? Did the music help you with editing rhythm or like what was that whole

1:05.6

no so so he came in and sort of watched that and and there was only so much especially in that first

1:11.2

session I think he knew he could do and he was kind of like very nice like it's great it's great great great great great

1:17.3

so what can we do with like Ensemble Voices and when can we start talking about like the band?

1:22.8

How much control over that do you have in here?

1:24.9

And I was just like very little unfortunately.

1:27.2

A great, great, great, no, we'll get to that, I'm sure.

1:29.2

And he was just kind of like, cool.

1:30.5

So anyway, that was great and like walked out, I'm'm sure in like a little bit of a panic attack because what we were working with was like the stereo off the board mix which was very much like vocal driven and not even like, vocal, but just like principal vocals.

1:47.0

And that was basically what we were cutting with,

1:49.0

so that's what he heard the first time.

1:51.0

And then ultimately, I got later on

1:54.1

I was able to have a couple great days with Alex

1:56.5

in San Francisco.

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