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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

Making The Cut: Richard Cox, editor Happy Valley,

January 2, 2018, 01:40 PM

https://www.aotg.com/making-the-cut-richard-cox-editor-happy-valley/

Richard Cox talks about how he learns as much from teaching editing as his students do, and how an edit can trigger emotions.

Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don't Explode a

December 29, 2017, 12:09 PM

https://www.aotg.com/strange-continuity-why-our-brains-dont-explode-a/

For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily?

Making The Cut: Stephen Ellis, ACE, editor Fire in

December 28, 2017, 01:31 PM

https://www.aotg.com/making-the-cut-stephen-ellis-ace-editor-fire-in/

Stephen Ellis, ACE addresses the fears of young editors who don’t want to get it wrong…but shows that mistakes are part of the process.

How To Cut Jean-Claude Van Damme's Hair

December 22, 2017, 10:55 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRcfHkPDt5I

Our take on the soon to be infamous overlap edit of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Mullet in "Hard Target". Get 10% off your first purchase here: http://squarespace.com/thisguyedits Tyler Danna is an L.A. based filmmaker and film teacher. He is a long time collaborator of Sven’s. ----------------------------------- My absolute favorite Film Editing Book is... "In the Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch: http://amzn.to/20ujg6B Find out about Walter Murch's theory on the relatio...

WONDER WOMAN: VFX Breakdown by UPP

December 22, 2017, 06:56 AM

http://www.artofvfx.com/wonder-woman-vfx-breakdown...

Another really cool VFX Breakdown by UPP, this time it’s about their work on WONDER WOMAN...

Blade Runner 2049 VFX Breakdown by UPP

December 22, 2017, 06:56 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/blade-runner-2049-vfx...

Universal Production Partners Here is the VFX breakdown about our work on Blade Runner 2049 by UPP.

Blade Runner 2049 VFX Breakdown

December 21, 2017, 07:52 AM

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/blade-runner-2049-vfx...

Rodeo FX – Here is the VFX breakdown about our work on Blade Runner 2049. The Rodeo FX artists completed 75 visual effects shots on this sequel of Ridley Scott’s classic in their Montreal and Los Angeles studios. The proximity of the LA office greatly helped the collaboration with Denis Villeneuve. Since the post-production work took place in the city of angels, Deak Ferrand, Art Director and Concept Artist, worked directly on the conceptualization with the Quebec director in Rodeo FX’s Lo...

Making The Cut: William Oswald, editor Doctor Who,

December 20, 2017, 12:45 PM

https://www.aotg.com/making-the-cut-william-oswald-editor-doctor-who/

William Oswald talks about finding the rhythm of a scene, and the benefits of practicing with real rushes.

5 Ways to Use the Macguffins

December 20, 2017, 05:30 AM

https://nofilmschool.com/2017/12/5-ways-use-macguf...

MacGuffins are everywhere in cinema, from the holy grail in Indiana Jones to the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings. However, not all films make good use of the power of these plot devices, namely action and superhero films. In this video essay, Sage Hyden of Just Write explores how these films oversimplify their narratives by making MacGuffins the focal point of the entire plot. Not only that, but he suggests five ways to use them so they serve your story rather than the other way around.

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