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To The Aotg.com Community,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce we will no longer be updating Aotg.com. Back in 2007, when we started, there was a lack of access to information about film, television, and commercial editing. We wanted to fix that by creating a central location for content about editing to be stored.

Since then, we've watched the amount of content about editing on the internet grow exponentially. We've also watched social media tools come and go with that growth. Does anyone remember Google Wave!? These social media tools changed how people access and search for media and information. People tend to turn to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram for their news and information, and those are all great tools to promote your sites, but as a site that aggregates links to other sites for users, it just doesn't work for us.

We will keep the site live but archive the ability to add links and comments. We will keep our database live with the links for those who desire to use it to search for editing information and research.

Our podcast, The Cutting Room, will move over to the Filmmakeru.com website and will continue to be a place for interviews with editors and other film professionals.

Everyone who worked for Aotg.com loved what we created and are proud that we could help so many editors find content that spoke to them.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the various post events worldwide in the coming years!

Yours truly,
Gordon Burkell
Aotg.com Founder

Editor's View: Further 'Up'

January 17, 2013, 08:14 PM

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/dv/feature/ed...

When I was 9, my parents took me to see 21 Up, the third in filmmaker Michael Apted’s Up documentary series. The amazingly ambitious premise of this series—exploring the Jesuit motto “Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man”—traces the lives of 14 people from 1964 (when they are 7) to the present. Every seven years, Apted visits them, conducts new interviews and produces a new documentary.

Below the Line: Editing the Crash in 'Flight'

January 17, 2013, 12:31 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/b...

In some ways, the job of film editors is to make their work invisible. They hope that audiences don’t notice the editing and see only that a clear path has been drawn to the heart of the film’s story.

#editor#editing#film editor#post#flight#crash scene
William Goldenberg talks about Argo

January 16, 2013, 06:32 AM

http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2013/01/stranger-tha...

“Ben is computer and editing savvy so he has an Avid at his house and in our cutting room,” remarks William Goldenberg. “There was a tremendous amount of footage in 45mm, 16mm, and 8mm. Ben would go into his room and cull through the dailies and find pieces that he liked. We had a working cut by that point but Ben would be constantly bringing in new pieces and ask what I thought about what he had found. There are three or four cut sequences in a row Ben had put together that are in the...

Heroines of Cinema

January 13, 2013, 08:00 PM

http://www.indiewire.com/article/heroines-of-cinem...

Unlike the frequent depressing statistics on female directors or cinematographers, editing is one creative role in cinema where women have traditionally held their own. From “E.T.” to “Lawrence of Arabia”, numerous big budget, studio films have been cut by women, with legends in the field including Thelma Schoonmaker, seven-time Oscar-nominated editor of Martin Scorsese’s films, and Sally Menke, editor of all Quentin Tarantino’s films and described by him as his “only truly genuine...

#film editor#film editing#cinema#heroines
Overthinking Ghostbusters - Editing It's Technical

January 12, 2013, 02:07 PM

http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/chapter5.sh...

I've been a professional editor since 2007, after clawing my way up through the ranks as an assistant editor, logger and, the lowest of the low, film student. You name it, I've cut it—short and feature films, documentaries, television series, music videos, commercials.

#editor#editing#film editing#ghostbusters
American Cinema Editors announce noms

January 11, 2013, 03:32 PM

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118064525.html/

The American Cinema Editors announced nominations for the Feb. 16 ACE Eddie Awards in film, television and docs...

#ace#award#film editing#awards#american cinema editors#eddies
Mike On Conan and the woes of shooting 16mm film..

January 9, 2013, 07:38 PM

http://theeditdoctor.tumblr.com/post/39954838176/m...

Today, we can take for granted how easy it is with DSLR’s to get this same look and outcome, but at the time what we were doing was pushing the poor college student budget and borders - especially by including a freaking Steadicam!!!

#blog#conan o'brien#16mm film
What Was Cut From Django Unchained

January 4, 2013, 12:45 PM

http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/what-was-cut-from-d...

Django Unchained is a long movie, but it easily could've been a much, much longer movie. Quentin Tarantino has said that a longer cut exists that he might release at a later point, and Samuel L. Jackson mentioned looking forward to the "five-hour director's cut."

#editing#django unchained
Edit This!: 'The Hobbit'

January 3, 2013, 02:57 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

WELLINGTON, NZ — Warner Bros.’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first of three movies based on the J. R. R. Tolkien introductory novel to The Lord of the Rings saga that could very well transform the movie-going experience.

#editing#film#edit#the hobbit
SNL: Cutting humor; cutting-edge technology

January 3, 2013, 02:56 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

NEW YORK — Once upon a time, the Saturday Night Live Film Unit –— those responsible for the fake commercials, shorts, title sequences and pre-recorded elements used in sketches — shot on 35mm film stock.

#film editor#film editing#snl

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