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

R.I.P. my friend, actor/filmmaker, Larry Holden

May 13, 2011, 06:00 PM

http://theeditdoctor.tumblr.com/post/5460227914/la...

Most known for Chris Nolan films, Larry turned to small budget filmmaking 10 years ago...

Rhythm Methods

April 7, 2011, 10:02 AM

http://www.spikemagazine.com/rhythm-methods-the-ph...

As much as we love contemporary dance – Siobhan Davies, Wayne McGregor, Liz Aggiss, and others, it isn't covered by Spike's remit. We do, however, write about film and can bend the rules for The Physical TV Company. Formed in 1997, by Dr Karen Pearlman and Dr Richard James Allen, the Australian-based outfit has focused on dance film. Although their motto is "stories told by the body", Physical TV has an increasing interest in transmedia and mixed reality. It's an exciting proposition.

What IS "Best Editing?"

March 17, 2011, 02:43 PM

http://theeditdoctor.tumblr.com/post/3907275258/wh...

Best costumes? Sure. Best Visual Effects. Right, got it. Heck, there can even be a BEST COSTUMES or BEST VISUAL EFFECTS winner for a film that hasn’t even a chance at a BEST PICTURE award... What does "Best Editing" mean exactly?

Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II

March 14, 2011, 07:09 AM

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/ivan-the-t...

By the time Sergei Eisenstein completed Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible Part I) in 1944, the widespread experimentalism that had characterised the Soviet arts of the 1920s was a distant, long-suppressed memory. The Soviet Union of the 1920s represented a rare historical instance in which a state openly supported avant-garde art as a force for socio-political change, having fostered futurist and constructivist movements that dexterously combined anarchist sentiment with the pressing Bolshevik...

October: The End of a Revolution

March 14, 2011, 07:06 AM

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/october-th...

In 1926, the October Revolution Jubilee Committee pulled Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Aleksandrov, and cameraman Eduard Tisse away from Generalnaia Liniia (The General Line, eventually completed in 1929) to begin work on a new film. Commissioned along with Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg, 1927), Boris Barnet’s Moskva v Oktiabre (Moscow in October, 1927), and Esfir Shub’s Velikii put (The Great Way, 1927), Oktyabr (October) was slated to premiere at the...

Alexander Nevsky

March 14, 2011, 07:04 AM

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/alexander-...

Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky) is not central to Eisenstein’s theory of montage and is not considered to be one of his most important works, at least critically. Yet the film exhibits a powerful folkloric spirit in its single-minded, patriotic call to unity in resisting German invasion. Alexander Nevsky is widely celebrated for its astounding 30-minute "Battle on the Ice" sequence that influenced a generation of filmmakers in constructing historical battles.

Watching you watch THERE WILL BE BLOOD

February 17, 2011, 09:11 AM

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=12417

Today’s entry is our first guest blog. It follows naturally from the last entry on how our eyes scan and sample images. Tim Smith is a psychological researcher particularly interested in how movie viewers watch. You can follow his work on his blog Continuity Boy and his research site.

Persistence

January 27, 2011, 04:20 PM

http://icutfilm.com/post/2959590058/persistence

I read this great quote. I think it pertains to Post Production, and filmmaking in general, pretty well. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are...

Two Thumbs, Two Dimensions Response to Ebert/murch

January 26, 2011, 06:02 PM

http://www.slate.com/id/2282376/pagenum/all/#p2

As far as Roger Ebert is concerned, the discussion about 3-D is over. "The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous," he wrote in his blog Sunday. "The case is closed." PRINTDISCUSSE-MAILRSSRECOMMEND...REPRINTSSINGLE PAGE FacebookDiggRedditStumbleUponCLOSE If that means Ebert will stop complaining about the medium, so much the better. For years now, the venerable critic has been griping that 3-D cinema is dim...

Walter Murch Reaches Out to Ebert about 3D

January 24, 2011, 04:33 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5421

Walter Murch is about as close as we in post-production will come to a rock star/Renaissance man. He’s a picture editor, sound editor, writer, technologist and thinker. He’s now somewhat of an anti-3Der and he lays out his case in a letter to film critic Roger Ebert. Here’s a tease:

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