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
March 3, 2011, 09:21 AM
https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...
As award season madness reached fever pitch, editor Kirk Baxter chuckled that about having a "strange" experience this year—earning his industry’s highest honors for his editing work. He and Angus Wall, A.C.E., his co-editor on The Social Network, are more used to sitting there and not winning, Baxter said, chuckling, a couple days after they took home an Eddie Award for Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film from the America Cinema Editors’ 61st annual Eddie Awards in mid-February.
March 2, 2011, 09:49 PM
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2011/02/th...
Even the biggest The King’s Speech-backer must concede this: Whittling Aaron Sorkin's 160-page script down to a tight two hours was a stunning achievement. To date, the film’s editors, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, have earned themselves an Eddie, the field’s top honor, but this weekend they may just snag an Oscar, too. (Update: They did it!) Little Gold Men spoke with Baxter and Wall about director David Fincher’s process, the digital revolution, and why editing is like rifling through so...
March 2, 2011, 11:36 AM
https://www.aotg.com/episode-51-ken-sallows-interview-part-1/
Ken Sallows is one of the top film editors in Australia and has worked on such critically recognized films as Chopper and Proof. He also played a major role in getting Murch's In The Blink of an Eye published.
March 2, 2011, 09:40 AM
http://postfifthpictures.com/2011/03/the-modern-ed...
I have a problem with what people think is the Modern Editor. The one I speak of is the self taught, do it yourself, do it all, one stop shop who has not learned through others while ignoring pre established workflow patterns.
March 1, 2011, 08:38 PM
http://splicenow.com/2011/03/01/sally-menke-interv...
Elvis Mitchel has posted a thoughtful, sensitive interview with editor Sally Menke this week for his LA-based show "The Treatment." Elvis is something of an LA institution, operating out of KCRW. His interviews are consistently penetrating, and this one is no different. Having helped run the Editors Guild Magazine for four years, I can tell you that it’s not an easy thing to interview editors with respect and without resorting to a host of cliches. This one does both.
March 1, 2011, 08:37 PM
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt110228sally_...
An editor is as important a component of a movie as the director. They often serve the function of sounding board and collaborator. Sally Menke was just that person. She worked with Quentin Tarantino on all of his films, starting with Reservoir Dogs. He was fond of saying that their teamwork was such that they finished each others sentences.
February 28, 2011, 08:18 PM
http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3478
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter took home best editing Oscars for The Social Network last night, following their A.C.E. Eddie and BAFTA wins a few weeks ago. Congratulations on your work and well-deserved awards, boys! It shoulda gotten best picture too but oh well! To celebrate the pair and their movie, here’s an updated version of my October post on the movie.
February 28, 2011, 06:37 PM
http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3563371844/saftas-20...
Cutaway would like to congratulate all the editors that won in their respective categories for Best Editing at this year’s SAFTA’s.
February 26, 2011, 09:02 AM
http://diginmag.com/robert-dalva.php
Robert Dalva is an Academy Award-nominated film editor, as well as a Hollywood cinematographer and director. He has worked on films such as "The Black Stallion (1979)", "The Black Stallion Returns (1983)," "Jumanji (1995)," "October Sky (1999)," "Jurassic Park III (2001)," "Hidalgo (2004)," and "Touching Home" (2008). I caught up with Robert while he was working in Montreal on a new film called "Immortals," which is directed by Tarsem Singh. Robert opened up about working with his long time...
February 26, 2011, 08:52 AM
http://quintessential.posterous.com/in-the-cut-emp...
I'm dedicating this fourth and final part of my review to a few highlights, summations and notes compiled by myself and the person who told me about the event: @EditorLiam. Liam's "notes" will be in the form of tweets, with his permission, which he sent out during the event. In case you're wondering, yes, I have taken different approaches to writing each of these four parts of my review.
Daniel George McDonald sits down to discuss creating the finale for Cheer Season 2.
Gordon sits down with the editorial team of The Black Lady Sketch Show to discuss their approach to ...
Gordon sits down with Philip to discuss his work with Tyler Perry and his latest film A Madea Homeco...
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