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Editor – Kyle Traynor

Although INDUSTRY editor Kyle Traynor joined the series already in progress in its sophomore season, by season three he would be given the cutting room keys to half of the season’s episodes, including both the series premiere and its finale.

Created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, INDUSTRY follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited number of available full-time employment opportunities at Pierpoint, a top investment bank in London.  The graduates include Harper Stern, a Black upstate New York native who uproots her life in pursuit of success despite having lied about the university she attended, Robert Spearing, a white working-class Oxford graduate who is eager to please and Yasmin Kara-Hanani, a privileged, well-connected child of Lebanese parents.

Kyle Traynor

Kyle is a Los Angeles based editor with work ranging from motion pictures to television, commercials, web and VR. He got his start working with director David Fincher and moved his way up to editor for the acclaimed series House of Cards. Since then he has worked on additional projects for Netflix along with series for HBO, Amazon, Disney, LucasFilm as well as commercials for brands such as Nike, Porsche, Land Rover and Meta. Kyle has worked on several independent projects that have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and Toronto International. 

Editing INDUSTRY

In our discussion with INDUSTRY editor Kyle Traynor, we talk about:

  • Keeping the cutting room close to the trading floor
  • The edutainment of delivering drama vs explaining economics
  • Getting control over kinetic camera work
  • Opening up hidden gems in closed captions
  • Loving those 80’s needle drops

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