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

Bad Day at the Moviola

March 26, 2010, 12:36 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2613

While I prefer to focus on the positive, I know from being on the planet a few decades that a lot can be learned in life and postproduction from the not-so-hot - the downright painful, and the tragic. So here’s a good example of bad editing.

Editor Answers: Lance Stubblefield from Lost

March 25, 2010, 12:33 PM

http://postfifthpictures.com/2010/03/the-editor-an...

Lance has prepared his answers in a different fashion than Daryl of Star Trek: TNG. Have a good read and enjoy. If you have more questions, leave them in the comment section.

Jump Edit Style

March 23, 2010, 12:25 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2010/03/23/jump-...

So you’ve learned how to edit. You understand the basic concepts of editing. You understand the importance of a sequence. You’ve grasped screen direction. You understand the importance of tight shot. You know the rules, which are more guidelines than rules. So, you want to break some rules?

District 9 Editor Makes the Cut

March 23, 2010, 12:24 PM

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-gu...

Vancouver film editor Julian Clarke has spent much of the last year hunkered down in an editing room in Toronto, working on a new Rachel Weisz film called The Whistleblower. The catch is, it was filmed in Romania. After each day of filming, film cans were sent by Fed-Ex across the Atlantic, where Clarke loaded them into the computer and went to work. "It created a several day delay, which is not ideal," he said...

Interview with James Manche

March 23, 2010, 12:23 PM

http://www.screeneditors.com/cms/documents/Transcr...

Here's the transcript from the interview with James Manche A.S.E., interview conducted by Deborah Peart for the Australian Screen Editors Guild.

Comedy Editing - Adding a Laugh Track...

March 20, 2010, 12:17 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2582

A show is "laffed" after the dialogue mix or after the entire mix. The laughs start after the "laffer" wheels the Laff box in. Whoa... hold the press...That was then. Now Charley Douglass’s original machine from the ’50s, like everything else, comes in a digital format. Still, it contains titters, guffaws, snickers, and chuckles of varying lengths.

Dede Allen R.I.P.

March 19, 2010, 06:45 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2713

To my generation of editors, Dede Allen was a revered editor par excellence, a queen of the cutting room. She worked endlessly and tirelessly to breathe in the essence of the film’s meaning and make sure it got to screen with the exact number of frames exactly placed...

Interview with Carol Littleton

March 19, 2010, 12:15 PM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/an_orgy_...

Some people plan and scheme for years about how to forge a career in the film business. For a lucky few, it's almost a divine accident. Such is the case with editor Carol Littleton.

Interview with Dede Allen

March 19, 2010, 12:14 PM

http://www.screeneditors.com/forums/showthread.php...

"It no longer bugs me that few people, including critics, understand what I do", says film editor Dede Allen. Until Bonnie and Clyde, few people except her associates even knew of her. Since then, films like Rachel, Rachel and Alice's Restaurant take on an additional interest because today's audiences...

An Interview with Ken Swallows

March 19, 2010, 12:14 PM

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/14/s...

Ken Sallows is one of Australia's most noted editors. His career started in the 1970s working at Crawford Productions on legendary TV shows like Homicide, Bluey, and The Sullivans. He moved into the film world as an assistant editor on Fred Schepsi's The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978).

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