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

The Rhythm of Filmmaking

January 6, 2012, 02:03 PM

http://masteringfilm.com/the-rhythm-of-filmmaking/

Different stories have different rhythms. It's possible to draw a flow-line to represent the rhythms of a story that can help you discover the visual rhythms for a production.This flow-line represents the rhythms of stories that alternate between great rhythmic peaks and valleys. The Godfather, Ran, Raging Bull, Lawrence of Arabia, and Citizen Kane are...

Cutting Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

January 5, 2012, 10:19 AM

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/tinker-tai...

Tinker Tailor Solider Spy is a notoriously complicated story and, in its just-released 2011 version, Dino Jonsater had the crucial job of editor. This is his first Hollywood film, but Jonsater made a name for himself for his skillful job on Let the Right One In, the 2008 Swedish film of a bullied boy who is befriended by a girl who happens to be a vampire. It's no coincidence that both movies were directed by Tomas Alfredson, a Swedish director who met Jonsater through...

The Edit Foundry will be back up soon....meanwhile

January 5, 2012, 10:10 AM

https://www.facebook.com/EditFoundry

Like the Edit Foundry on Facebook... And if you are in region 9 of the NPPA like our facebook page too.

Portuguese editor Joao Braz

January 4, 2012, 10:09 AM

http://editorunderconstruction.blogspot.com/2012/0...

(In Spanish) With over 18 years of experience editing, Joao Braz is still stuck on several projects of great importance for the Portuguese landscape, whether in film or television.

Contender – Editor Michael Kahn, War Horse

January 3, 2012, 12:36 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender--editor-mi...

Starting his career editing the comedy series, Hogan's Heroes, editor Michael Kahn, A.C.E. has become one of the most honored editors in motion picture history with seven Oscar nominations and three Oscar wins for editing Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan – all of which were directed by Steven Spielberg. War Horse is Kahn's most recently released collaboration with the esteemed director. He is currently working with the director on Lincoln.

Oscars: Ballots mailed to voting members

January 3, 2012, 12:27 PM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

BEVERLY HILLS -- Nomination ballots for the 84th Academy Awards were recently mailed to the 5,783 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org).

The January Newsletter: Bending the Spoon

January 2, 2012, 03:15 PM

http://www.splicevine.com/the-january-newsletter-b...

The January issue of my monthly newsletter Fresh Off the Vine is out! What's new this month? Video editing has become more and more about improvising (a.k.a. "hacking") ways to become creative, technical and organized. And often this...

EditFest NY 2010 - Alan Heim on Star 80

January 1, 2012, 11:11 AM

http://manhattaneditworkshop.blogspot.com/2012/01/...

Editor Alan Heim discusses with author Bobbie O'Steen at EditFest NY 2010, about the importance of scene transitions from a scene in Star 80. For more information on Editfest NY please go to editfestny.com. This video was produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop and edited by John Schlirf.

Read my article: The Innovative Interpretati...

December 31, 2011, 02:50 PM

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

Whenever editors begin a film, they enter into completely new territory and must adjust to and understand the director's way of working and thinking. Editor Jay Rabinowitz, A.C.E., has traveled among a particularly diverse group of directors and has been able to immerse himself in their worlds — while showing the courage and ingenuity to surprise them, which is what really sets an editor apart.

The Buddy System

December 31, 2011, 10:14 AM

http://fixitinpostprod.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/th...

Any editor will tell you that the actual act of editing is a solitary experience. You get in to your suite, lock the door, black out any windows and don't come out until your masterpiece is complete. The problem is reaching the endgame with a sense of objectivity. By being so secluded and glued to [...]

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