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

Walter Murch: "Three Fathers of Cinema"

October 30, 2010, 03:39 PM

https://www.aotg.com/walter-murch-three-fathers-of-cinema-2/

Detailed analysis on the beginning of cinema. The possibilities of film-making as a languaje, exposed from the perspective of the great editor (and first to be referred as "Sound Designer").

The 5 Senses of an Assistant Editor, by Dale Gagne

September 21, 2010, 02:56 PM

http://cceditors.ca/uploads/5SensesOfAnAssistantEd...

Assistant Editor, Producer, VFX Editor Dale Gagne writes about some of the attributes required by an assistant editor. And it's no small task - Dale begins: "Communication, organization, management, diplomacy, and technical capability. Mastery of these skills are key to understanding the job of a 1st assistant editor. "...

Editing, and directing style affect brain activity

September 7, 2010, 11:05 AM

http://www.labspaces.net/view_news_comments.php?ne...

Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style. Because the study, which appears in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, offers a quantitative neuroscientific assessment of the impact of different styles of filmmaking on viewers' brains, it may serve as a valuable...

Anti-Cut

August 18, 2010, 07:42 PM

http://cceditors.ca/uploads/Anti-CutgbAugust17,201...

Written by Art of the Guillotine founder Gordon Burkell, this article written for the Canadian Cinema Editors and examines long takes and how an editor needs to examine his/her shots and decide when to make or not make a cut.

Kuleshov on Film: Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov

July 13, 2010, 04:14 PM

https://www.aotg.com/kuleshov-on-film-lev-vladimirovich-kuleshov/

A free Copy of Lev Kuleshov's writings on film. His work examines post production and influenced Sergei Eisenstein.

Art and Philosophy of Film/Video Editing

June 8, 2010, 09:58 PM

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47929320984&...

This is a group dedicated mainly for the art and philosophies of Film/Video Editing. Many people see it as a mechanical process needed to get a final movie but fail to see the real power generated by a simple cut.

Psychology Study of Film Editing

March 22, 2010, 12:20 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=2603

"Modern movies may be more engrossing-we get "lost" in them more readily-because the universe’s natural rhythm is driving the mind." James Cutting, Jordan DeLong and Christine Nothelfer from their paper on human attention span and film.

Heliocentric Pantheon and Walter Murch Interview

December 23, 2009, 05:52 AM

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/heliocentric-...

Through both film editing and sound design, Walter Murch has worked literally behind the scenes of Hollywood to give shape and structure to the films we see. In the process, he's won three Academy Awards; he's directed his own feature-length film, the creatively subversive Return to Oz; and he's worked with some of the greatest directors of modern times, including Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, on some of their greatest films, from The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now to...

Imitate the Eye

December 9, 2009, 05:15 AM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2009/12/08/imita...

Last week I have the wonderful honor of being a guest lecturer at The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. I had a wonderful time talking about video editing. I love to share my passion, hence why I blog about it. I spoke about: Editing on action, The Rule of Six, Match Action, Pacing (which is part of the Rule of Six), Importance of tight shots, Sequencing, Screen Direction...

Murch On In the Blink of an Eye

December 4, 2009, 05:07 AM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...

Film editor and sound designer Walter Murch won an Academy Award for sound design for Apocalypse Now. Some of the films he's edited and/or mixed are The Conversation, American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather II, and III and Crumb. He wrote a book about his work, In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. (Rebroadcast from 1996.)

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