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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

“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywoo

December 8, 2016, 01:24 PM

https://blog.longreads.com/2016/12/08/braaam-incep...

You walk into a local multiplex a few minutes after the lights have dimmed. You find your seat to the first trailer, some confection involving superheroes or zombies. As the light flickers over you, strings churn from the speakers, interrupted at certain intervals by a massive blast of indistinguishable brass, like an alphorn next to an amplifier.

Composer Job Talbot on Sing's Musical Influences

November 22, 2016, 10:24 AM

https://www.wheretowatch.com/2016/11/composer-joby...

With stars like Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, and Scarlett Johansson lending their voices, Sing is sure to be the must see family movie this Christmas (the official release date is December 21). The anthropomorphic animation about following your dreams features music by composer Joby Talbot. In a movie about a singing competition, the music becomes a character all its own. Talbot’s task was to weave together a score amidst a story featuring over 100 songs made popula...

Arrival Sound Editor On Collaborating With Villene

November 18, 2016, 01:08 PM

http://deadline.com/2016/11/arrival-amy-adams-deni...

How do aliens sound in an emotional, psychological, science fiction universe? This was one of many questions faced by French-Canadian sound editor Sylvain Bellemare in overseeing the development of a soundscape for Denis Villeneuve’s out-of-the-box alien invasion picture, Arrival.

mixing strategies; hearing loss; drum editing and

November 14, 2016, 10:21 AM

http://reaperblog.net/2016/11/qa-17/

It’s Q&A time again. In this one I’m answering questions sent in after a request to my email newsletter. (You should sign up for that) Answering questions from REAPER users on things like mixing strategies; hearing loss; drum editing and more.

Using LUFS for Mixing

November 3, 2016, 06:19 AM

http://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/2016/11/03/using-lufs...

You might have noticed that in the last few years, the differences in level between television shows, commercials, and channels are pretty even, with no big jumps in volume. That’s because viewers were complaining for years about the fact that there was a dramatic increase in level whenever a commercial aired because it was so compressed compared to the program that you were watching. Congress set out to do something about this, and in 2012 adopted a method to normalize those volume jumps that...

6 Factors in Designing Sound for Your Horror Film

October 15, 2016, 07:42 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/10/6-factors-play-hug...

Though these elements technically apply to virtually all films, the horror genre (as well as thrillers, sci-fi, etc.) tends to take everything up a notch when it comes to sound. So, let's take a look at several concepts talked about in the video that you should pay special attention to when designing the sound for a horror film.

MacBook Pro may arrive without a headphone jack

September 16, 2016, 05:21 AM

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/09/15/macbook-pro...

Apple might be going all-in with the wireless revolution as the company is now allegedly considering killing the headphone jack on the MacBook Pro.

3 Tips That Will Help You Be More Efficient & Orga

August 21, 2016, 07:26 AM

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/3-tips-will-help-y...

If you work with sound and audio in post-production, things can get really complicated really fast, especially if you're working on a big project that requires a lot of tracks. But editor Dan Bernard has shared a video with three tips that can help keep you more organized and efficient in post.

Sound Design Heaven

July 14, 2016, 09:25 AM

https://randythomblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/sou...

Most great sound design sequences have stylized visuals, sparse dialog, and sparse music.

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