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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

Public Domain, Creative Commons and The Cosmonaut

August 23, 2013, 01:38 AM

http://challenge.90to5.org/2013/08/public-domain-c...

We just wanted to elaborate a bit on the options you have choosing your movie to edit down for the 90to5 Editing Challenge: In addition to the PD, there is a relatively new license called CC – creative commons. Quite a few filmmakers nowadays publish their works under this license which does allow use of the material. One of those projects we want to mention is “The Cosmonaut”, an independant feature project whose makers share every single bit of footage.

17 Signs That You Were Alive Before Digital Photog

August 18, 2013, 09:19 AM

http://g-technology.tumblr.com/post/58603124901

How do us elders separate ourselves from those who only know what it means to upload? Here are 17 tools and toys you'll immediately recognize if you still remember the heyday of Kodak. Bring on the nostalgia.

33 Ways to Stay Creative

August 17, 2013, 03:40 PM

http://filmmakeriq.com/2013/08/33-ways-to-stay-cre...

A random list of things to make yourself more creative.

David Fincher: Into The Darkness

August 10, 2013, 11:11 AM

http://vashivisuals.com/david-fincher-into-the-dar...

David Fincher's films are getting darker and darker. Here's a look at the cinematography of his last 3 projects and how the look drives the story.

Remixing Videos To Reboot Your Creativity

July 11, 2013, 09:56 PM

http://vashivisuals.com/video-remix-edit-to-reboot...

Sometimes an editor needs to reboot his mental computer. Often when work crushes you down with its repetitiveness and sheer volume…one can get stuck in a place of darkness and discombobulation. I find the best way to get out of that funk is to cut something random yet with a purpose.

8 Steven Soderbergh Films - Average Shot Length

June 10, 2013, 10:32 AM

http://vashivisuals.com/8-steven-soderbergh-films-...

Steven Soderbergh shows a wide range to the edit pacing of his films.

Sometimes a jump cut...

June 4, 2013, 04:27 AM

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2013/06/03/somet...

I had spent a day studying King Hu's The Valiant Ones at an archive. That night over dinner, my friend asked me what was taking me so long. I answered, "I'm trying to figure out his secrets....

10 Steven Spielberg Films - Average Shot Length

May 25, 2013, 02:30 PM

http://vashivisuals.com/10-steven-spielberg-films/

It's very interesting to see the correlation between average shot length and the genre of Spielberg films. All 10 films edited by Michael Kahn.

6 Famous Movies with less than 650 shots

May 22, 2013, 06:08 PM

http://vashivisuals.com/6-famous-movies-with-very-...

An average film might have 1200 shots. These 6 films have far fewer. One of these films won the Best Picture Oscar with only 355 shots.

8 Films of Stanley Kubrick - Average Shot Length

May 19, 2013, 03:51 PM

http://vashivisuals.com/average-shot-length-of-8-s...

In my ongoing analysis of film editing, I wanted to share the results of 8 Stanley Kubrick films. He definitely prefers longer cuts in his storytelling style.

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