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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

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May 13, 2015, 04:53 AM

https://www.aotg.com/how-do-we-communicate-ideas-the-philosophy-of-wit-2/

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a philosopher obsessed with the difficulties of language, who wanted to help us find a way out of some of the muddles we get into with words.

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

April 27, 2015, 04:47 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen. Join me today in studying the master, possibly the greatest composer of motion in film history.

Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head

March 26, 2015, 09:38 AM

https://www.aotg.com/earworms-those-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/

Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays until you find yourself unloading the vegetables in time to the beat? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores earworms — a cognitive phenomenon that plagues over 90% of people at least once a week.

New York Times - After the Kodak Moment

March 24, 2015, 07:47 AM

http://nyti.ms/1MTazdN

Kodak has prioritized its patent portfolio and the Eastman Business Park since it declared bankruptcy in 2012. Despite some success, the company might never live up to the legacy of its own past.

#kodak film
Is technology changing storytelling?

March 24, 2015, 05:44 AM

https://www.aotg.com/is-technology-changing-storytelling/

Do changes in technology demand a different approach in the craft of writing? Or do the best stories still come in classic form? Here's my research as a doubtful enthousiast, very much interested in the storytelling potentials of new platforms and the masterpieces of the future it will eventually lead to.

How Movies Control Your Brain

February 26, 2015, 06:13 AM

https://www.aotg.com/how-movies-control-your-brain/

Neuroscience is being used in Hollywood to measure and predict audience reactions. Could your brain direct an Oscar winner?

Predictions for Streaming Video | 2015

January 5, 2015, 03:12 PM

http://postproduction.com/industry-blog/prediction...

We team up with Wowza, Ramp, Key Code Media and Iowa State University and have a discussion about where the Streaming Video Industry will go in 2015. How will the networks be affected? What does this mean to the person creating their own shows? Etc...

#predictions#streaming video
Understanding Composition

November 3, 2014, 05:02 PM

https://www.aotg.com/understanding-composition/

Discover one of the most important things you can learn as a CG artist: Composition. There's more to it than the rule of thirds.

The Surprising Way Colors Influence

October 29, 2014, 05:53 PM

https://www.aotg.com/the-surprising-way-colors-influence/

Improve the sense of balance in your compositions with these insights on how colors influence one another...

WHAT IS NOIR?

October 21, 2014, 04:48 AM

https://www.aotg.com/what-is-noir/

Peter Labuza says film noir is best described as a "mode," and in this video essay describes how this mode responds to classical Hollywood melodrama and continues…

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