Editing Con Air: lessons from Glen Scantlebury
Editor Glen Scantlebury joined Kingdom of Dreams to unpack Con Air, a project where the cut has to carry more than continuity. This episode is about rhythm, collaboration with directors, and the moments that only appear once you are willing to lose footage you love.
Great editorial craft rarely announces itself. In the Con Air conversation, Glen Scantlebury keeps returning to story clarity: what the audience must feel beat by beat, and which images are expensive noise. That is the difference between a cut that is busy and a cut that is alive.
Steal one habit from this episode: name the purpose of a sequence before you touch the timeline. If you cannot say it in a sentence, the cut will wander.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 171: Glen Scantlebury on Con Air
- → EP 177: Hemal Trivedi on Yatra
- → EP 151: Glen Scantlebury on Angry Young Men
Browse more editor conversations in the Kingdom of Dreams archive.
Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with Glen Scantlebury (EP 171). Not a reprint of any single article.