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Oscar-winning editor Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, ACE discusses editing "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Art of the Cut

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The Importance of Rhythm in Scenes

Even with someone who had written the script you were getting in and out of scenes differently than the script. You're shortening things coming in later but leaving earlier sometimes, he says. "It's also about rhythm and it also might be about if there's a scene that you take out and there's a natural way to that scene so you have to find a solution let me give you an example" He explains how they decide on who to end the scene on after calm leaves them in front of the house. It was solved by a very simple way  that after calm leaves her she wants to leave immediately.

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