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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

No Time to Die VFX Making an Emotional Conn

November 2, 2021, 08:36 AM

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/no-time-to-die-v...

In “No Time to Die,” it was important for director Cary Joji Fukunaga to complete Daniel Craig’s arc as James Bond by tying up all five films. This meant emphasizing the emotional connection to Bond, even during the high-octane action sequences, which impacted the VFX. This included the Aston Martin DB5 gun battle in Matera, the sinking trawler with Bond and Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and the explosive climax atop the control tower roof of baddie Safin (Rami Malek).

Audio Post: The Scary Soundscapes of Halloween Kills

October 29, 2021, 08:52 AM

https://postperspective.com/the-scary-soundscapes-...

By Patrick Birk Michael Myers is back in the new film Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green, who also helmed the 2018 Halloween film. The latest addition to the Halloween film franchise, which began with director John Carpenter’s original scare-fest in 1978, once again stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. Continue reading → October 28, 2021 The post Audio Post: The Scary Soundscapes of Halloween Kills appeared first on postPerspective.

The dangers of mission creep in grading

October 29, 2021, 08:51 AM

https://www.redsharknews.com/post-vfx/item/4641-mi...

Replay: It starts innocently enough. You are colour grading with a client and the client requests that you drop in a replacement shot, or remove an object from the frame. You have the tools to do these things, so why not? By Nicole Caetano

Muppets Haunted Mansion Editor Alexandra Amick

October 29, 2021, 08:51 AM

https://www.btlnews.com/crafts/editing/muppets-hau...

With the Halloween movie season comes a variety of different things for people both young and old to watch to get into the spooky spirit. While many focus on horror films that will raise the hairs on the back of the neck, room should always be made for zany childlike fare. And, this Halloween season, the Muppets team has done just that with a Disney+ special titled Muppets Haunted Mansion. For fans of the legendary Disneyland ride and of the Muppets, this 50-minute special is just for you.

Video isn't video without sound

October 28, 2021, 09:36 AM

https://www.redsharknews.com/audio/item/4089-video...

Replay: If you know any camera people or videographers, you might want to forward this to them along with the admonition that video is only half the equation for a full production.

The Great Society The Beginnings of the Editors G

October 27, 2021, 08:38 AM

https://cinemontage.org/great-society-beginnings-e...

Editor’s Note: In celebration of the Editors Guild’s 80th anniversary on May 20, 2017, we reprint this story on the founding of the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors, the forerunner of today’s Guild, which originally appeared in CineMontage JAN-FEB 2012 in honor of the Guild’s 75th anniversary.

ShangChi VFX Supervisor On Creating Dragons The

October 27, 2021, 08:36 AM

https://www.slashfilm.com/644061/shang-chi-vfx-sup...

Weta had 350 artists working on Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Most of their work was done on the third act, including the fight between the Great Protector and Dweller in Darkness, the battle between Shang-Chi and Xu Wenwu, and the action involving the Ten Rings. Even with two large scale dragons going at it in the sky, it was the rings, according to Weta Digital's visual effects supervisor, Sean Walker, that provided great difficulty.

Editor Pax Wasserman on Diving Into the Details of

October 26, 2021, 08:53 AM

https://moveablefest.com/pax-wassermann-becoming-c...

“Is he a scientist, a researcher, a philosopher or inventor?” someone can be heard asking in “Becoming Cousteau,” about how best to introduce the great French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau to American audiences, even with his achievements as monumental as they were not quite making it to the mainstream across the Atlantic. Still, the deep sea diver that had invented the aqualung to spend more time underwater than anyone ever had before and captured his excursions on film so that aud...

No Time To Die Charlie Noble Overall VFX Supervi

October 26, 2021, 08:50 AM

https://www.artofvfx.com/no-time-to-die-charlie-no...

In 2011, Charlie Noble explained the work done by DNEG on Captain America: The First Avenger. He then worked on several films such as Exodus: Gods and Kings, Bridge of Spies, Jason Bourne and Wonder Woman 1984.

Roger Deakins on cinematography and VFX crossover

October 25, 2021, 08:49 AM

https://beforesandafters.com/2021/10/25/roger-deak...

At the recent VIEW Conference, cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins CBE (1917, Blade Runner 2049, Skyfall, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Sicario) was a guest of the event in conversation with director Dean DeBlois. The two had collaborated on the animated How to Train Your Dragon series.

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