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
December 31, 2011, 10:07 AM
http://www.fluxmagazine.com/index.php/film/peeping...
Thelma Schoonmaker, arguably the greatest living film editor, has worked alongside director Martin Scorsese for the past thirty-plus years. When not making movies together the pair set about raising funds to restore the works of Powell and Pressburger. Schoonmaker, married to Michael Powell from 1984 – 1990, has recently been doing the press rounds to promote the restoration of Powell's most reviled work, Peeping Tom.
December 31, 2011, 10:06 AM
http://editorunderconstruction.blogspot.com/2011/1...
(In Spanish) Four espaol known film editors gave a talk on the job of editor for the Academy of Cinema. In the VCR estn Jos Salcedo, Teresa Font, Aledo and Alejandro Lzaro IVN.
December 30, 2011, 12:20 PM
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2012-oscar-prediction...
The Film Editing category is more interesting than you may initially imagine. The award for editing was first handed out in 1934 when it went to Eskimo. That year only three films were nominated, the other two were Cleopatra and One Night of Love. One film that was not nominated was Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, which went on to win Best Picture along with four other Oscars. It also marked the first of nine times in 78 years that the film that eventually went on to win Best Picture was...
December 30, 2011, 09:39 AM
http://manhattaneditworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/...
Editor Alan Heim talks with author Bobbie O'Steen at EditFest NY 2010 about the challenges of editing a film with real-world parallels, as seen 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.
December 29, 2011, 10:37 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. All of this was in evidence when we discussed and screened some of Rabinowitz's work in December...