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

Interview with Richard Marks (part 4)

March 13, 2011, 11:04 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

In this latest episode Richard Marks speaks about Final Cut Pro and the impact this is having, and gives his opinion on the question "will film survive?"

Interview with Richard Marks (part 5)

March 13, 2011, 11:03 AM

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cf...

In this final episode of the MacVideo interview with Richard Marks - Richard speaks his love for the editing process, working in the film industry, and the satisfaction which the life of a film editor provides.

Post Script: Reality TV

March 12, 2011, 11:41 AM

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

I don’t watch a whole lot of TV. For the most part, cable news plays in the background as I focus on any number of different hobbies — usually in a different room. But, when I do find time to sit in front of the set, I find myself gravitating toward unscripted programming. Not the Kardashians or the Real Housewives, but the shows you’d find on History, Discovery and A&E. Sons of Guns is pretty cool, but I think it’s probably a guy thing. Hoarders and Confessions: Animal Hoarding are just...

Reality TV

March 12, 2011, 11:40 AM

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

Admit it. You watch them — those unscripted television programs, where unpredictability and drama equal big ratings. The networks know it too and are constantly refining concepts and challenges to keep audiences interested.

Interactive Interest: Posting New Media

March 12, 2011, 11:38 AM

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

These days there are more and more avenues available to reach audiences, and creatives are taking advantage of as many as possible. Want to find a way to literally put the audience into a commercial? Have an idea for a wacky TV series that might not get past the suits at a big network? Looking to take visual storytelling to a new level with the iPad? Currently, it's all possible.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Editor

March 11, 2011, 08:55 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3509

UK editor Jim Clark entered the cutting room at age 20 in 1951 and in 2010, at 79, turned in Made in Dagenham, Mike Leigh’s latest film, released this year. (See January 27th post: I loved this film.) In case you’re not familiar with this work, here’s a partial list of his credits: Vera Drake, The Jackal, Marvin’s Room, Copycat, Nell, The Mission, The Killing Fields (for which he won the Oscar), Marathon Man, The Day of the Locust, Charade...the list goes on.

Employing the Art of Editing Seminar by Experts

March 11, 2011, 03:03 PM

http://wordpress.quintessentialstudios.net/?p=344

It's hard to convey the sheer brilliance of the seminar a lucky few of us had the chance to attend last night. I've seen glimpses of this type of information, namely in two places, Peter D. Marshall’s directing course and in an introductory speech by Professor Daniel Jacobo from Chaffey College on the Tao of Super 8.

What a Film Editor Does: Set the Record Straight

March 9, 2011, 07:10 PM

http://hollywoodreinvented.com/2011/03/film-editor...

From the earliest days of making movies there has been misunderstanding and confusion about what exactly an editor does in the creation of a movie, television program or today, the multitude of other types of "dynamic media" that are emerging both scripted and unscripted. This is understandable because along with the cinematographer, the art...

Documentary Cutting: Editing Surviving Joburg

March 9, 2011, 12:29 PM

http://www.cutaway.co.za/post/3744685794/documenta...

Stephen Abbott, editor of Unhinged - Surviving Joburg, gave Cutaway some insight into editing this documentary film which will be featured at CWFF.

Frankenbyting

March 9, 2011, 09:00 AM

http://lfhd.net/2011/03/09/frankenbyting/comment-p...

No, that isn't some odd Frankenstein-vampire thing. It is a term that is often used by documentary editors to explain how we edit certain interview clips. Much like Frankenstein's Monster was made from body parts of different people, a "Frankenbyte" is a sound byte made up of statements from several sentences from an interview subject.

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