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Jay Prychidny. Editor: Orphan Black. Jay Prychidny is known for Orphan Black (2013), Wednesday (2022) and Scream VI (2023).
- Editor, Producer, Editorial Department
- 8 min
- What’s Your Daily Work Routine?
- What Did Your Biggest Professional Failure Teach You?
- What’s The #1 Thing That Has Helped You Shorten Your Craft’s Learning curve?
- What Book Has Helped You The Most Over Your Career?
- And Your Parting Piece of Advice?
I usually start my day by taking a really long time to get started. I'm not so good with going fast in the mornings. I prefer starting late and working late. As I wait for dailies to come in, I'll look at the sound work my assistant has completed for the previous day's cut scenes and make any mixing changes, or add music, or give feedback to my ass...
I think I've been lucky enough to not have had full-out, public professional failures, but I've definitely had personal, private ones. I've had a few jobs where I felt like I was in over my head, and would become very stressed out or emotional over trying to figure how to adapt to a new creative challenge all on my own. The jump from factual to scr...
As alluded to above, the number one thing was gaining confidence in my own creative instincts. To me, one of the biggest time wasters of a day is uncertainty and insecurity, which can lead to endlessly going in circles on your own creative decisions. And often, people get stuck on decisions that ultimately don't make a huge difference to the audien...
This feels like a very predictable answer, but it's also true! The most impactful books for me were: 1. Walter Murch's In the Blink of an Eye 2. Michael Ondaatje's The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Film Editing So many thoughts and concepts and images in those books completely shaped how I think about film editing, and continue to impa...
I'm always very positive and optimistic when it comes to people wanting to move up in the industry. The two most important things, as I see it, are talent and networking. And they support each other, of course. Many editors are used to being quite isolated, and not getting out there and forming relationships with content producers. But this is the ...
Dec 15, 2022 · The series, which had Tim Burton in the director’s chair for four of its episodes, is told from Wednesday’s point of view, and Burton and editor Jay Prychidny wanted the show to reflect that in every way possible. “I always approached it straight from [Wednesday’s] perspective and how she saw the world,” Prychidny told SYFY WIRE.
Aug 22, 2023 · It’s a fish out of water story, which Jay Prychidny edited four episodes for Burton. The editor, who recently crafted the exceptionally entertaining Scream 6, brings his expertly nice and light touch to the Netflix series. Prychidny recently took the time to explain to us how Wednesday turned out to be one of the biggest hits of 2023.
- Jack Giroux
Apr 16, 2023 · Scream VI picks up a year after the events of Scream 2022.The survivors of the latest Ghostface attack have left Woodsborough for a fresh start in New York. However, when a new Ghostface begins to terrorize them, they will have to fight to survive and protect their loved ones with the help of other Ghostface survivors, Gale Weathers and FBI Agent Kirby Reed.
The trick for Prychidny is to steep an audience deeply in Wednesday’s unique point of view, while balancing humor and horror—which to Wednesday, is just another day. The series has recently been in the top spot on Netflix. CineMontage: Having a presence like Tim Burton on the show and directing episodes must create a unique dynamic for a ...
Dec 10, 2022 · Jay Prychidny might just be one of the busiest people in Hollywood as an editor and producer on several high-profile projects under his ... I've been helping supervise the editing, music, sound ...
