"When you are making a movie musical, you will get involved about six weeks in advance so that you will join the community of filmmakers," Netflix said. "Tick, tick... boom!" Production mixer Tod A . Maitland tells about his indispensable role in music films. "I just like movie musicals. I think it's a huge energy on the set," he continued, noting that due to the nature of the song, "I am an integral part of this process." Watch our exclusive video interview above.

One of the benefits of participating in the production early is Maitland's ability to "choose microphones for the actors." “Actually, I conducted a comprehensive test on actors who use lavalier microphones and found the one that fits my cantilever microphone best, and then that microphone is the best for studio microphones,” he shared. In "Tick, tick... boom!" Maitland emphasized how he and director Lin-Manuel Miranda "want to make this sound as natural as possible." The protagonist-Jonathan Larson, a real-life drama composer, famous for the soundtrack of "Loan"-"Really a wild, informal person," Maitland recalled as he said , The actor Andrew Garfield "surprisingly caught him."

Meet Andrew Garfield ('Tick, Tick... Boom!'): Playing Jonathan Larson feels like "introduced to an old brother who I don’t know exists"

Maitland discussed "Tick, Tick... Boom!", the two musical cores of the songs "Boho Days" and "Sunday". Both require strict coronavirus protocols, especially the former, because all singing is done live. "My favorite bang," Maitland said of following Garfield with a microphone around the apartment, because it "captures sound elements better than wireless microphones" and "helps create more natural sounds." ." For Joel Gray, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Babe Newworth, Bernadette Peters, Andre de Shields, Chita Rivera and others starred in "Sunday", "The entire crew must be quarantined for two weeks" because "You have these 80-something-year-old Broadway legends, and no one wants to kill them."

The emotional climax of the film is the song "Why" performed live by Garfield at the Dracott Theater in Central Park, New York City. Maitland talked about the transition from using Garfield’s pre-recorded tracks to a fully live broadcast plan during the filming: “Andrew’s emotions on the day we did this were emotionally more emotional than when he did the vocal pre-recording. Going further two months ago, we ended up doing a live broadcast of the entire scene. It was just because the vocals did not match his performance that day, so we switched everything to live broadcast. The result was surprising because of you. It really captured that complete emotion."

See the "very personal story" of cinematographer Alice Brooks about "tick, tick...boom!". And "fully immersed" in "In The Heights"

Maitland has been nominated for Oscars four times. He received his first nomination for "Born on July 4th" in 1990, and was nominated for "Kennedy" in 1992, "Sea Crackers" in 2004, and most recently, "Joker" in 2020. What can you say? Maitland reflected on the recognition of his work. He talked about the excitement of the Oscar nominees luncheon, where he often reconnected with people he had previously worked with for his 110 film credits and the ones he participated in in 2020. "Wonderful" British Film Academy Awards "Joker". This year, Maitland is committed to "tick, tick... boom!" "And the musical "West Side Story" by the 20th Century Studio.

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