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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

Stories I Love: The Third Man

February 14, 2013, 12:44 PM

http://tyler-weaver.com/2013/02/14/stories-i-love-...

In post-World War II streets overflowing with inky shadows, greed, and hapless bureaucracy, pulp novelist Holly Martins (the brilliant Joseph Cotten) arrives in Vienna and promptly gets himself wrapped up in a plot that would rival any of his own novels when he finds that his friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles at his most charismatic) has died.

A short history of editing

February 13, 2013, 08:25 AM

http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/429-a-short-...

The first ever edits were made accidentally, by cameraman stopping and starting early hand-cranked film cameras. Gradually it was realised that these “cuts” could be used to join shots together to tell a story, and the movies were born.

Top Posts to AOTG Feb 4-8, 2013

February 9, 2013, 03:28 PM

http://www.aotg.com/index.php?page=feb4-8

Here's the top posts from Feb 4 to February 8, 2013. If you think there should be some inclusions that may not have been posted on the site for our analytics to see, add them in the comments below.

Guidestones Prod. Diaries talking about editing.

February 6, 2013, 08:29 AM

http://gorillaproductions.squarespace.com/blog/201...

Jay Ferguson, the director/Producer of Guidestones, got me to chat about editing the first season. He is hard at work between award shows ceremonies and writting at preproduction of season 2 of Guidestones. Not sure how you put even more twist and turns but Good Luck there Mr. Ferguson, Good LUCK.

Tim Squyres Edits Life of Pi

February 4, 2013, 07:35 AM

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/tim-squyre...

Tim Squyres, who was just nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Life of Pi, got hooked on film when he took an introductory film course at Cornell University in upstate New York. Squyres talks to Creative COW about the challenges of editing Ang Lee's first digitally shot feature film, which was also a stereoscopic 3D release.

Editing an animatic

February 3, 2013, 09:34 AM

http://www.jaa-editing.com/blog/editing-an-animati...

An animatic is the first stage of the edit in an animation. It's the combination of the storyboards, audio (possibly with temp voice acting), and timing. It's used as the base for the animation: animators will take the shot angle, durations, certain actions, and timings as a starting point for their work on each shot.

Top AOTG Posts Jan. 28 to Feb. 1

February 2, 2013, 10:56 AM

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Here's the top posts from January 27 to February 1, 2013. If you think there should be some inclusions that may not have been posted on the site for our analytics to see, add them in the comments below.

Always Renting

February 1, 2013, 08:22 PM

http://normanhollyn.com/2013/02/01/always-renting/

Just the other day, I got word that my wife and I will have to be moving again from our house. We’re renters (something I’ve stupidly held on to since my days in New York — where it seems everybody rents) and when we moved into our new house two years ago, we settled on [...]Post from: HOLLYN-wood by Norman HollynAlways Renting

How to Handle Working for an Asshole

February 1, 2013, 10:43 AM

http://www.theblackandblue.com/2013/01/31/work-for...

Like any job, going to work in the film industry isn’t always fun. Stepping on set can become a chore when you’re stressed from a shoot, feeling pressure from your department, and working extremely long hours.

No Time To Waste!

January 31, 2013, 08:31 PM

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/no-time-to...

Shortland Street is a show that's difficult to put into perspective for anyone outside of New Zealand. It airs five nights a week in prime time on the country's most watched channel, TV 2, and has an immense social influence: something like 95% of people over 14 have watched the show at some point, and it regularly achieves a 50 share. The show's reach is unmatched.

#no time#new zealand

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