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46 CINEMONTAGE / Q3 2018 in its workflow, according to Powell. "Production and post are all here together at Fox, and that feels good," he adds. "We aren't all by ourselves out at a post facility somewhere. Everyone really feels part of a team, and that face-to-face communication is invaluable." That team, which Costantino calls "a family, all equals," includes visual effects editor Rob Kraut, Powell's assistant Bart Rachmil, Costantino's assistant Hillary Wills and Kraut's recently hired assistant, Ian Morabito. They operate out of the show's editorial offices at Fox, literally steps from the stages, and with plenty of "face time," as Kraut puts it, with their showrunner MacFarlane. "Seth will come in to look at an early cut of a show, and go through it, discussing what he intended," Kraut relates. "But at the same time, he is a collaborative person and wants the best ideas on the screen. He'll decide what the best idea is, but he will take suggestions from us. So it's very good to have that time with somebody who has creative oversight on everything, and to have it in an environment where everyone is invited to collaborate." The editors feel that because MacFarlane is so hands-on, the show benefits from sticking with two editors rather than a larger group because they all join forces, in a manner of speaking, inside MacFarlane's mind to achieve his goals for every episode. "I think because of the way Seth works, and because we are effectively putting together a 15-hour movie, he has a certain working style that makes it almost better with less people," offers Costantino. "Since we view it like we are basically making a really long feature, the schedule is set up so he can be involved in all parts of the process. Of course, we have pretty intense working sessions for locking each episode; we aren't just churning it out. For all these reasons, we use a little bit of a different workflow here." Costantino and Powell add that MacFarlane's detailed interest in editing, visual The Orville. Fox Tom Costantino.