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

Back In The Saddle

July 27, 2011, 11:30 AM

http://jamiecobb.com/2011/07/back-in-the-saddle/

It's time to dust off the blog as much has happened since I last left off. Heart of Now has had a nice festival run, playing 8 festivals including its World Premiere at the amazing Dead Center Film Festival. And as soon as the ink dries, I can officially announce the film's impending distribution deal, so stay tuned.

Cutting Transformers 3's Metal Mayhem in 3D

July 27, 2011, 11:13 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentiss...

Michael Bay knows what he wants from a Transformers movie: big effects, beautiful women, and a cocky kid who knows how to talk to giant robots. Working on that movie means getting into a Michael Bay frame of mind, understanding how all the disparate parts of the project are, over time, coming together in a two-and-a-half-hour burst of highly choreographed and very expensive metal mayhem.

A visit to LOC and NARA

July 26, 2011, 02:59 PM

http://kirstenstudio.com/wordpress/archives/2953

When it comes to documentary construction, one of the first steps, from my understanding anyway, is research and that step gets repeated time and time again and the story develops. I've been working on a particular documentary on and off for a few years now and it still returns to the research stage. Filmmakers can...

TAIL POP

July 26, 2011, 02:52 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

I was going to school and working in a restaurant when I met my former husband––a successful businessman whom I knew through my job. Troubled hearts can be drawn together and we were both on the rebound personally. Our issues drew us together like magnets (my self-esteem and his love to stay out and party).

The Editor as Consigliore

July 26, 2011, 02:50 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Through several TV projects and five feature films, the relationship between editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., and director Jon Favreau has evolved to the point where Lebental views himself as Favreau's creative consultant when it comes to helping the director figure out exactly where his movies are going.

Post-Post-Production

July 26, 2011, 02:45 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...

Motion Picture Editors Guild retirees are goldmines of information; they are walking encyclopedias of the industry with priceless experience and wisdom to offer. While the technology may have changed, the necessity of navigating through the challenges of the craft and the politics still remains.

STAR-SPANGLED SOLDIER

July 26, 2011, 02:43 PM

https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...

At the same time, the film had to appeal to modern audiences and appear grand and cinematic in both 2-D and 3-D on the big screen, with the requisite action and visual effects today's audiences have come to expect. That meant the movie would also be a huge visual effects' effort—over 1,500 digital effects are in the final product. Thus, visual effects and picture editing, by necessity...

Checkerboard joining

July 26, 2011, 08:49 AM

http://terencegallacher.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/c...

John Abbott, the cameraman, knew that I was a film editor and he asked me to help him from time to time. I would go to his house in Harrow where, after building an extension, he had a large bedroom converted to a cutting room. I would go there after work and do his job...

Marcus D'Arcy - Tomorrow When The War Began

July 25, 2011, 06:44 PM

https://www.aotg.com/marcus-darcy-tomorrow-when-the-war-began/

2010 AFI Award nominated Editor Marcus D'Arcy discusses editing and his film "Tomorrow When The War Began".

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