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

Montage, Collage, Decoupage – Podcast

January 17, 2011, 09:38 AM

http://blogs.aftrs.edu.au/screenculture/?p=667

Compositing and the modern mise en scene – This is the title of a presentation i made at the recent Film History conference at the University of New South Wales. I recorded the lecture and have posted it here as a podcast. It explores the conceptual and compositional paradigm of layered CGI compositing and attempts to comprehend the unique qualities of digital compositing as an architectural process.

The Best Effect is One the Viewer Doesn’t See

January 16, 2011, 01:17 PM

http://blogs.nppa.org/editfoundry/2011/01/15/the-b...

I’m a big fan of NFL films. The stories they create are simply visual candy. I wanted to create a film effect for the story on Thunder in the spirit of NFL films. I wanted to create my own look and feel as well. Every clip in this story is affected. It’s not flying boxes. It’s not crazy wipes. It’s not picture in picture. It’s something WAY more subtle. I’m creating an entire feel for the story. What I’m doing is never distracting to the viewer which is what editing is all about.

Nominees for 61st ACE Eddie Awards

January 16, 2011, 01:09 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/nominees-for-61st-ac...

The American Cinema Editors have announced their nominees for the 61st Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The awards ceremony will be held Feb. 19 at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom. The nominees are:

Editing 'The Green Hornet'

January 15, 2011, 11:14 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

CULVER CITY, CA — Veteran editor Michael Tronick and his editing team have taken on the task of helping director Michel Gondry bring the Green Hornet and his trusty sidekick Cato to the big screen. While there is plenty of action to go around, the film stars Seth Rogen, better known for his comedic work (Knocked Up, Superbad, The 40-year-old Virgin) than his crime fighting abilities. In addition to starring in Green Hornet, Rogen also gets writing and producing credit, so his funny hand was.

Editing 'Life In A Day'

January 15, 2011, 11:13 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Maga...

LONDON — What if Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald, each armed with directing Oscars, entrusted shooting their new film to literally thousands of unknowns? And what if they also distributed hundreds of cameras to people around the world who lacked computers and Internet access? The result could be, no, should be total chaos.

ACE Eddie's Nominate Usual Suspects

January 14, 2011, 10:08 AM

http://www.indiewire.com/article/ace_eddies_nomina...

The American Cinema Editors have nominated the five films that have become the clear frontrunners in this year’s awards race for their annual ACE Eddie Awards. In the awards’ Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) category, which often lines up perfectly with Oscar’s choices, "Black Swan," "The Fighter," "Inception," "The King’s Speech" and "The Social Network" were the nominees, which are the same five nominees that the DGA honored last week.

Syncing Dailies

January 13, 2011, 10:41 AM

http://splicenow.com/2011/01/12/syncing-dailies/

In 2011, hand syncing of dailies seems downright anachronistic. Doesn’t timecode make all that trivial? Yes, with digital cameras, automatic syncing is standard practice. But this inevitably involves two clocks, and that means they are subject to drift. It doesn’t take much drift to put you out of sync a frame or two. Production is supposed to jam (synchronize) their clocks...

Favorite Scene: The Social Network

January 12, 2011, 10:52 AM

http://postfifthpictures.com/2011/01/favorite-scen...

I thought it might be a good practice to start a discussion amonst the editing community about what scenes they admire most about current or past films. I had "The Social Network" deleivered to my door yesterday thanks to Amazon’s outstanding prices on Blu-Rays. Before I take another look at the film I wanted to know what was your favorite scene in terms of editing? The club? The dorms? Thoughts?

10 Employment and Income Producing Ideas

January 11, 2011, 04:58 PM

http://hollywoodreinvented.com/2011/01/11/freelanc...

As a long-time member of the creative community in Hollywood, I’ve been witness to both rich and lean times of work and employment. Economic cycles and labor disputes have hardened most of us to the occasional period of slow, or even no work, but I think it’s fair to say that most of us have NEVER seen anything like the economic situation of the last few years.

Editing Metaphors (Part One)

January 11, 2011, 09:55 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4041/editing-met...

Being an editor is often like being a limo driver. Yes, a limo driver. A limo driver’s sole purpose is to deliver a client to a preset destination according to the client’s wishes. So how does this apply to editing? As per most things in life, the devil is in the details.

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