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

Editing: The Invisible Hands Behind the Scenes

January 4, 2011, 10:38 AM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/editing-the-invisibl...

Films have been edited for over 100 years and the craft has evolved considerably. The best editing is now honored each year by both the American Cinema Editors with their ACE Eddy Awards and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences with the Oscar, but Chris Innis, ACE, Oscar winner for The Hurt Locker, noted that many of the great film editors such as Dede Allen ACE, Alfred Hitchcock’s editor George Tomasini ACE, Robert Wise, ACE, who edited the masterfully constructed Citizen Kane...

Editorial Bliss

January 4, 2011, 10:37 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4028/editorial-b...

Should you edit your own movie? This is a question I think needs to be asked more often. Some of the great directors never edit their own films and others do. Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez famously edit their own material, as does James Cameron, but he usually is on a team of editors with him. Steven Spielberg never edits his own films and relies on Michael Kahn as he has for 35 years with only 2 exceptions in his feature film career. Why would you want to work with an editor?

5 Questions with Tron editor James Haygood

January 3, 2011, 10:07 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5161

Studio Daily had a chance to chat with Tron Legacy editor James Haygood, ACE, and first assistant Dylan Firshein.

my 2010

January 2, 2011, 02:03 PM

http://www.vimeo.com/18337234

well its been a great year ... so much fascinating and challenging projects, so much great ppl i've met ... so thank you all... especially all the ppl behind "the art of the guillotine" and all users... HAPPY NEW YEAR ... so that way my 2010:

Thelma Schoonmaker on restoring The Red Shoes

January 2, 2011, 12:06 PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2009/may/19/c...

Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese editor and widow of director Michael Powell, tells Charlotte Higgins how the 1948 Powell and Pressberger masterpiece The Red Shoes was brought back to its luminous best and presented at by Martin Scorcese at Cannes

Editor Rick Shaine on The Chronicles of Narnia

January 1, 2011, 10:32 AM

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

Editor Rick Shaine has collaborated with director Michael Apted on multiple feature films, including Enigma, Amazing Grace and Enough. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is their most recent project. The feature, which used an all-digital workflow, is being released in both 2D and 3D. See Post’s December issue for an interview with director Apted.

Dede Allen Retrospect pt 2

December 31, 2010, 10:29 AM

http://peelslowlynsee.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/ded...

Earlier this week, I did a post about the great editor Dede Allen, and since then I’ve seen more online tributes for a behind-the-scenes film person than ever before (except, of course, for a director). It’s been great to learn so much about her accomplishments and legacy. Here’s some Some Facts About Dede that I never knew until this week:

Dede Allen Retrospect Pt. 1

December 31, 2010, 10:28 AM

http://peelslowlynsee.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/ded...

Her impact is enormous, however, as she edited many wonderful and important films, such as Serpico, The Hustler, Dog Day Afternoon, and others. I’d like to show scenes from three of them.

Storytelling

December 30, 2010, 03:26 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3314

Editors are often called story tellers and the last re-writers on the show. This struck me anew as I have been putting together a picture album of my new house for my parents. I won’t always be there to tell them about each photo so reflexively I began arranging the photos as if a phantom narrator was talking about each one. Putting together an album or a slide show or a PowerPoint is telling...

Cutting Remarks: Julie Monroe, Joe Hutshing

December 27, 2010, 09:55 AM

http://www.cineaste.com/articles/a-round-table-int...

Julie Monroe has assisted on many Stone films, beginning with Salvador, and was an associate editor on JFK. After also working for Adrian Lyne (Lolita) and Irwin Winkler (De-Lovely, Life as a House), Julie returned to edit the last two Stone films, World Trade Center and W.—films which reflect a clear transition in Stone’s style from the frenetic, tough edge of JFK and Natural Born Killers, to a more traditional narrative approach. A twenty-year veteran with Stone and other directors, Joe...

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