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

One Movie, Two Editors, Three Dimensions

March 9, 2009, 12:21 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

You feel as a viewer that you’re inside the movie," says Joyce Arrastia, describing the new, three-dimensional film Monsters vs. Aliens from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures, which she and Eric Dapkewicz edited. "Rather than feeling like the characters are popping out of the screen, you feel like you are sitting in their fantasy world."

Four Short Conversations About Editing

March 9, 2009, 12:21 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Future Media Concepts thinks it has an idea. The national training center concentrates on prepping future and current users of digital media—the most popular classes covering, of course, the top NLE applications from Apple and Avid, but there’s more on many of the other products you’d imagine it’s useful to learn: Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, sound design, website design and development and more.

Point of Entry

March 9, 2009, 12:19 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Michael Pedraza is a man with a plan. While attending film school in Arizona, he decided that he would work with one of his two favorite editors—Michael Kahn, A.C.E., or Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E. Happily, he had an "in" in that his editing teacher’s claim to fame was that he had worked in Kahn’s editing room on Saving Private Ryan.

Alex Rodriguez’s International Language of Editi

March 8, 2009, 12:17 PM

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

London. Rain. Tunnels. Brushing up against wet umbrellas. Giving directions to visitors when I am one myself. It doesn’t matter what country I am in, I must be a beacon, a target for those stranded looking eyes. I see their minds calculating and their bodies approach as they think I could be the one to indicate a direction to the left or right. I give a guess hoping I have pointed the woman in the right direction and then turn left to board the tube to meet up with Oscar-nominated editor...

Slumdog Millionaire Editor Chris Dickens pt 5

March 7, 2009, 12:17 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/chris-dickens-edito...

Part V of my interview with Chris Dickens. In this segment I ask Chris if he had any indication that the film was going to be the worldwide phenomenon it has turned out to be. I also ask him what it is like to be in the center of the awards season vortex.

Slumdog Millionaire Editor Chris Dickens pt 4

March 7, 2009, 12:16 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/chris-dickens-edito...

As editors, who often live with a film for an extended period of time, it becomes like one of your children. In this segment I ask Chris about sequences from Slumdog he is especially proud of, or ones that hold a special place in his heart. We talk about some of the directors he admires who have influenced him, his fondness for stories told in a non-linear way and how his director Danny Boyle encouraged him to take risks and try new ideas while cutting the film.

Slumdog Millionaire Editor Chris Dickens pt 3

March 6, 2009, 12:15 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/bafta-winner-chris-...

In Parts III and IV Chris and I go on to speak about technical issues and the fact that the film was a hybrid; shot on both 35mm film and digital. Chris cuts on the Avid, and the complexity of post production was compounded by the fact that the 35mm elements were shot 3-perf, a technique where the exposed image fills the entire surface area of the frame without any matte area or "wasted space". 3-perf is an excellent solution when shooting in 1:1.85 aspect ratio because it reduces the cost...

Slumdog Millionaire Editor Chris Dickens Pt. 2

March 6, 2009, 12:14 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/chris-dickens-edito...

Here is Part II of my interview with Chris Dickens, award winning film editor of this year’s Slumdog Millionaire. In this installment I ask Chris how he connected with Danny Boyle and what were some of the of the more creatively challenging aspects of making the film.

Slumdog Millionaire Editor Chris Dickens Pt. 1

March 6, 2009, 12:12 PM

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/oscar-winner-chris-...

Today we present Part I of a multi-part series with award winning film editor Chris Dickens. Chris is the recipient of this years "triple crown" of editing awards for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire", for which he took home the American Cinema Editor’s (A.C.E.) EDDY Award, the British Academy of Film an Television Arts (BAFTA) award and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Award.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

March 6, 2009, 12:10 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

Amid the pre-Oscar festivities, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) held its ninth annual Invisible Art Visible Artist Seminar with the Academy Award-nominated picture editors at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on the eve of the Oscars. Moderated by Alan Heim, A.C.E., the seminar featured insightful conversation about their nominated films and their approach to editing.

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