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The editing team behind I May Destroy You was given creative licence to try out new and unconventional ideas
The editing team for I May Destroy You started small but expanded to six people to help Michaela Coel’s complex and experimental show to find its distinctive tone and shape in the edit.
A 12 x 30-minute series, each of the
episodes were like mini-films, with their own identity and structure. After a quite traditional initial edit which
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focused on assembling the story together, there was a distinct shift as more people joined and there was more time and space to play with key scenes. It was as the team got bigger that I May
Destroy You found style in the edit, marrying music and moving image to take the series to new heights. At times experimental, dynamic, and abrasive, the edit carefully balanced serious drama with dark comedy. A couple of things quickly become
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apparent when talking to the six editors of I May Destroy You - Guy Bensley, John Dwelly,
Amy Hounsell, Mike Phillips, Christian Sandino-Taylor and Lindsey Woodward. Firstly, it was very much a team effort.
“We were sharing ideas all the time,” says Woodward. “I’ve worked in groups before, but never one that was so collaborative and such a sharing group,” says Bensley. Secondly, they praise the creative freedom
that Coel gave them during the edit. “The brakes were taken off,” says Dwelly. There was nothing that we weren’t allowed to try.” This was particularly the case when the
shoot finished, and Coel herself started coming to the cutting rooms. “We had a huge amount of creative
freedom – there wasn’t anything that wasn’t allowed, as long as it was serving the story, the characters and what Michaela wanted to achieve,” says Dwelly. “Michaela wasn’t precious – she was very open to anything that we would try, which
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