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
November 9, 2010, 03:18 PM
http://www.elskid.com/blog/post-prod-week-post-2-s...
You’ll hear this phrase from time to time muttered by knowing producers. Sounds ghastly, doesn’t it? So prosaic. Shooting is just so much sexier when it’s about beautiful images. On a side note, have you ever considered how brusque the lexicon of filmmaking is? We shoot, we cut, we clap, we call action – man’s work – hoohah! Unfortunately...
November 9, 2010, 03:14 PM
http://schubincafe.com/blog/2010/11/january-13-201...
"Things You Can and Can't Fix in Post: Acquisition Video" Keynote, Public Television Quality Group, 2011 NETA Conference, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN.
November 9, 2010, 11:07 AM
https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...
"It’s all about the clues, what Patrick Jane sees or senses, and the journey to his conclusions," says The Mentalist picture editor David Ekstrom, who cuts the CBS series with Chris Cibelli, Glenn Farr and Jimmy Gadd. "The Mentalist differs from other shows that I’ve cut in recent years in that the pace of the show is driven by the process that our lead character uses to solve the crime," Ekstrom continues. "The exposition that would typically be on camera often takes place while he is...
November 8, 2010, 11:03 AM
http://www.elskid.com/blog/post-production-week
Something I hear over and over in conversations about DSLRs, particularly with photographers, is that people know bugger all about editing. I don’t care how gorgeous your footage is, and I’ve taken flak for saying this on Twitter, but videos, unlike photos, take place over time, and as a result, your skill as a filmmaker is about how you repay people for the time they elect to give you. Never, ever, forget that. This is why editors wield so much power.
November 6, 2010, 03:58 PM
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/col/srag/2000/0...
A classic article on how Walter Murch created a soundtrack of horror for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
November 5, 2010, 04:32 PM
http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php
Mark Livolsi discusses his toughest cut in Almost Famous. This is part of the Manhattan Edit Workshop in NY and the ACE Edit Fest nyeditfest.com
November 5, 2010, 04:30 PM
http://www.artoftheguillotine.com/assocvideo.php
Australian Screen Editors presents "Demystifying Codecs", a seminar on video codecs by Chris Reynolds. This is part 7 of 12. Topics covered in this part include: H264 Settings, Data Rate, Keyframes, Multi-pass Vs. Single-pass, Quality Slider, Scaling, Deinterlace. Chris Reynolds is an editor at ActiveMotion.
November 4, 2010, 09:42 AM
http://mediajock.blogspot.com/2010/07/fredrick-wis...
I got some insight into what kind of temperament one needs to sustain a 60 year career in documentary when I asked Fredrick Wiseman what I imagined to be a fair question: What recent trends in documentary film do you find heartening or perhaps disheartening? "I don't go to films. I mostly read." I pressed him: "You don't watch films? When you go to film festivals or these kinds of events?"
November 4, 2010, 09:33 AM
http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3131
MovieMaker magazine, professes to be "The World’s Best-Selling Independent Movie Magazine." So when the editor solicited me for an article for their Fall edition in exchange for ad space about my latest book (Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know), I accepted her proposition. I wrote and titled this extensive piece weeks...
Daniel George McDonald sits down to discuss creating the finale for Cheer Season 2.
Gordon sits down with the editorial team of The Black Lady Sketch Show to discuss their approach to ...
Gordon sits down with Philip to discuss his work with Tyler Perry and his latest film A Madea Homeco...
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