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

Let Reality Play

September 12, 2011, 04:26 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

The editors who put together ABC's Dancing with the Stars each week readily concede that they have a massive job on their hands. Indeed, the seven offline editors who cut reams of story packages together that get rolled into two different types of live DWTS broadcasts each week—a performance show and a results show—use terms like...

GAME-CHANGER

September 12, 2011, 04:23 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

It's more about a man's journey and struggle against conventional wisdom than it is about Baseball, says editor Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E. The film he's discussing is Moneyball, which opens September 23 through Columbia Pictures, and the man is Billy Beane, portrayed by Brad Pitt.

A Foothold in Reality

September 12, 2011, 04:20 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Ordinarily, organizing in unscripted television proceeds on a show-by-show basis. Crews exercise their collective clout to get shows to sign union contracts, and each time they do so they help to build incrementally the foundation for better employment standards in that sector of the industry. But with the newly announced term deal with Fremantle-Media North America, a prolific producer of some of the most prominent titles in reality television, we did not just build a little upon the...

Wes Anderson's RUSHMORE (1998)

September 12, 2011, 04:17 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

There are those wonderful, albeit rare occasions when you are sent a script and immediately a sense of excitement overtakes you. Such was the case in 1997 when Wes Anderson sent me Rushmore. I felt so…lucky! A couple of years earlier, Wes had championed my cause with producers James L. Brooks, Polly Platt and Richard Sakai to be his editor on his debut, Bottle Rocket.

EMMY NOMINEES TALK SHOP

September 12, 2011, 04:15 PM

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

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, August 27, an eager industry audience crowded into the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California to hear six picture editors nominated for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards discuss the art and craft of editing. Presented by the Picture Editors Peer Group Executive Committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), and co-sponsored by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, the Fifth Annual Prime Cuts seminar allowed editors...

Barbara Tulliver - Feature Film Panel

September 12, 2011, 10:00 AM

https://www.aotg.com/barbara-tulliver-feature-film-panel/

Editor Barbara Tulliver, A.C.E. talks about the importance of match cuts and rhythm with a scene from Homicide. For more information on Editfest NY please go to editfestny.com. This video was produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop and edited by Daniel Jamieson.

Ten years later

September 11, 2011, 03:13 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/index.php/archives...

Susan Perla, CBS news editor, reported on her 16-hour days following the obliteration of the World Trade Center: The images that I could not air were pretty awful. I do think about some of the footage and it disturbs me. I hope that as I work with people, I can bring humanness to any aspect...

Editing A Short Film: Is This Scene Boring 2

September 8, 2011, 03:07 PM

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jaymckinnon/NZZT/~3...

Earlier this week, I posted an article detailing a very long and unfortunately boring raw scene I edited and the steps I took to make it better. Long scenes that consist of 2 characters talking are extremely tricky to pull off. The challenge is finding ways to cut things out that aren't working without sacrificing...

Talking to Louis Cioffi, editor of Dexter

September 8, 2011, 03:04 PM

http://editorunderconstruction.blogspot.com/2011/0...

(In Spanish) Christine Purse (MM): Cul was your first job in industry? Louis Cioffi (LC): My first job was as an apprentice fitter mounting documentary Don Finamore. Meet Don at the University of St. John, was the teacher of my class PRODUCTION.

Summertime and some more Riffs on Bad Editing from

September 7, 2011, 03:22 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/index.php/archives...

Here are a few more riffs on bad editing from an anonymous editor who watched the 197 episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000), a comedy series from Minnesota's twin cities that ran from 1988-1999 mostly on Comedy Central and is now available on DVD. The editor's comments are on the first line in purple as...

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