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

Mary-Jo Markey Discusses Editing

January 14, 2012, 05:30 PM

https://www.aotg.com/mary-jo-markey-discusses-editing/

Part one of my interview with Mary-Jo Markey, editor of Super 8, MI3 and LOST. In this episode we discuss how she made her way into film editing and moved from assistant to film editor.

Contracting Contagion

January 14, 2012, 11:22 AM

http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/2012/01/contra...

Contagion (2011), the late-summer release from Steven Soderbergh, astutely charts the spread of a viral pandemic and the lives it affects. The film begins on day two after a previously unknown lethal virus first comes into contact with humans, closely examining the lives of those fighting for survival, seeking to profit from the chaos, and racing against time to find a vaccine.

Hugo and The Invention of Thelma Schoonmaker

January 14, 2012, 11:20 AM

http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/2012/01/hugo-a...

Every holiday season, a raft of the usual child- and family-oriented films hits the market, hoping to become the next holiday classic that must be watched every year before it can truly be deemed "Holiday Time." Among this year's offerings is one film I believe has a very good chance at becoming just such a classic: Hugo.

Editing Return of The Muppets

January 14, 2012, 11:18 AM

http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/2012/01/return...

"I guess people forgot about us," laments Kermit the Frog in his lonely, dilapidated mansion. "Should we do it all again?" he asks the cobweb-strewn paintings of his polyfoam and fleece performer friends. The song, "Pictures in My Head," is one of six original songs in Disney's new musical film, The Muppets.

The Adventures of Tintin and Kahn

January 14, 2012, 11:14 AM

http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/2012/01/the-ad...

Spanning the past 35 years, editor Michael Kahn, A.C.E., has been closely associated with Steven Spielberg, collaborating with the most singularly renowned director in history on nearly every feature film since 1976.

Creative Inspiration

January 14, 2012, 11:13 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/11067/creative-i...

Weeks are for work. Weekends are for personal enrichment. Maybe that enrichment is biking, skiing, cooking, cleaning (really?!), hiking, reading, going to the movies or theater, or whatever floats your boat. For me, it is keeping a collection of inspiring activities at the ready so when the moment strikes, I have no shortage of ways to stimulate my mind.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

January 13, 2012, 03:59 PM

http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/the-g...

I recently spoke with Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, who as a team have cut Fincher's last three films, earning them a best editing Oscar for The Social Network as well as a nomination The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I was curious about tackling a film that had already been done a couple of years before. Kirk Baxter replied, "We were really reacting to David's material above all, so the fact that there was another film about the same book didn’t really affect me.

Deconstructing a Dragon, Edit by Edit

January 13, 2012, 08:44 AM

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

The December 18, 2011 edition of The New York Times Magazine focused on the thought process of the editing duo Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with that of the film's director, David Fincher. The article focused on a scene which you can see as a slide show...

Editor Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist

January 12, 2012, 04:11 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-ann...

To tell the truth, this was the first time editing a whole movie by myself, admits Anne-Sophie Bion, formerly an assistant to the renowned French editor, Herve Schneid, (Amelie) who taught her, "if editing works without sound, it can only be better with it." When editing another film, Bion practiced cutting by shutting off the audio to see if the picture worked silently. When she was actually tapped to edit the modern day silent film, The Artist, working without dialog did not faze her.

Contender – Editor Joel Cox, J. Edgar

January 12, 2012, 04:09 PM

http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-joe...

How does one collaborate with one of Hollywood's true legends for so many years on such a wide variety of projects? Just ask Joel Cox, who has edited nearly 40 films in total and has worked with Clint Eastwood since the late 1970s. After apprenticing and assisting in the editing room on many projects, Cox ascended to the role of film editor with Eastwood and has cut all of the star and director's most notable films of the past three decades, including their newest collaboration, J. Edgar.

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