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

Designing Sound Discussion Group – Scouts Honor

February 17, 2015, 05:52 AM

http://designingsound.org/2015/02/designing-sound-...

We had originally intended to schedule this talk back in November; during our focus on documentaries. Circumstances conspired against us, but a good idea is a good idea. So I’m happy to get this on our schedule this now. This coming Sunday (Feb 22nd), at 4PM U.S. Eastern time (1PM Pacific)...

Review of the CFX Concert Grand

February 17, 2015, 05:46 AM

https://www.aotg.com/review-of-the-cfx-concert-grand/

In this video James takes a look and a listen to the CFX Concert Grand piano library by Garritan and Abbey Road Studios. This is so much more than just one piano in a room. James tries this library on classical, jazz and rock music to find out how it works for different musical styles.

Zimmer, Elfman and More Talk Composing

February 16, 2015, 02:21 PM

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/wat...

"Standing on the podium and hearing it for the first time, I guess it's like seeing your child for the first time," Oscar-winning composer John Debney ("The Passion of the Christ") says in the trailer for "SCORE." Fittingly enough, the feature-length portrait of the power of film music, in the works from a Los Angeles-based team of journalists, producers, and photographers, is a passion project in itself. Director and executive producer Matt Schrader and executive producer Trevor Thompson have t...

Kickstart This: SCORE: A Film Music Documentary

February 16, 2015, 10:42 AM

http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/kickstart-this-sc...

Do you love film scores? Do you love listening to soundtracks all day? Is John Williams or Ennio Morricone or Danny Elfman or Hans Zimmer your favorite musician? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this is a documentary for you. Longtime readers will know that I am a huge fan of scores myself, and I love discovering new work and enjoying old favorites.

The sirens’ song for Oscar

February 16, 2015, 06:20 AM

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2015/02/15/the-s...

The Lego Movie. Another guest blog this week, this time from Jeff Smith, our colleague in the department here at UW–Madison. Jeff is one of America’s experts on movie music and sound technology. He contributed an entry on Atmos last year. He has written many articles on film sound, along with two books: The Sounds of [...]

Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards

February 16, 2015, 06:19 AM

http://soundworkscollection.com/news/2014-motion-p...

The Motion Picture Sound Editors' (MPSE) 62nd annual Golden Reel Awards honored a full spread of films Sunday night. "American Sniper," "Birdman," "Unbroken," "Get On Up" and "Big Hero 6" all walked away with hardware.

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary

February 16, 2015, 06:19 AM

http://soundworkscollection.com/news/score-a-film-...

Last summer we set out to create a first-of-its-kind, definitive documentary about the power of film scores. As Emmy Award-winning journalists, we quickly knew we’d uncovered something magical: a privileged look at the lives of the world’s greatest living virtuosos.

MPSE awards winners: 'American Sniper,' 'Unbroken,

February 16, 2015, 06:18 AM

http://www.goldderby.com/news/8533/motion-picture-...

"American Sniper," the Oscar frontrunner for Best Sound Editing, prevailed over three of its rival nominees -- "Birdman," "Interstellar" and "Unbroken" -- for the main prize of Sound Editing (Effects and Foley) at the Motion Picture Sound Editors on Sunday. Despite

CAS Awards: ‘Birdman,’ ‘Big Hero 6′ Nab To

February 15, 2015, 03:29 PM

http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/cinema-audio-s...

With only a week to go until the Oscars, the sound mixers of “Birdman” and “Big Hero 6″ were feeling the love on Valentine’s Day as they scored motion picture mixing honors at the 51st annual Cinema Audio Society Awards.

CAS Award Winners 2015

February 15, 2015, 11:10 AM

http://deadline.com/2015/02/cas-award-winners-2015...

Fox Searchlight’s Birdman won the live-action motion picture award and Disney’s Big Hero 6 the animation award at the 51st annual CAS Awards ceremony tonight at the Millennium Biltmore in Los Angeles. The Cinema Audio Society gala also honored Boyhood writer-director Richard Linklater with its Filmmaker Award, and he trekked over to the Biltmore from the Hyatt where he was a nominee for the WGA Awards (he didn’t win).

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