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

Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter Cut The Social Network

February 15, 2011, 11:59 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/angus_wa...

Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter are having a good year. Their work editing David Fincher’s The Social Network garnered them both Oscar and Eddie nominations. And the film itself, in addition to being a front-runner come Oscar night, was a success with both audiences and critics. That might seem like a hard thing to accomplish with a movie that, on the surface, is about the founding of a Website. But The Social Network is less about writing computer code and drafting business plans than it is about....

"Or once."

February 15, 2011, 09:12 AM

http://incontention.com/2011/02/14/or-once/

I can't let February the 14th pass without some acknowledgement on my part, so here it is: one of the coolest, warmest, hottest romantic exchanges I can think of in any movie. Scott Frank's writing is conversational poetry here, Anne V. Coates's editing shapes all the politics of lovemaking into a single scene, and George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, both as beautiful and as human as they've ever been on screen, define chemistry. I love this scene. I love this movie. Happy Valentine's Day.

A film editor by any other name...

February 14, 2011, 05:47 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?page_id=19

Happy Valentine's day! I've made a special quiz for you. Look at each word in the left column and pick the correct word in the right column. Jot down you answers and see how you did tomorrow.

Editor Lenny Mesina talks Beats Rhymes and Life

February 14, 2011, 03:14 PM

https://www.aotg.com/editor-lenny-mesina-talks-beats-rhymes-and-life/

MakingOf sits down with editor Lenny Mesina to discuss his craft and 'Beats Rhymes & Life'

Fincher’s Musketeers Talk Shop

February 13, 2011, 12:39 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/f...

As a filmmaker, David Fincher has the reputation of an extreme perfectionist, so finely attuned to detail that he doesn’t trust anyone else to get even minor secondary shots. That vision earned him an Oscar nomination as the director of "The Social Network" – but what about the guys who have to work with him? While Mr. Fincher is celebrated for doing dozens and dozens of takes , what’s often forgotten is that other people then have to look at each and every one of those takes to put the fi...

Fried Chicken & Mayonnaise Editing

February 12, 2011, 11:12 AM

http://www.thebearwrestler.com/essays/2011/2/8/fri...

I like to do these metaphors from time to time to help people understand what it’s like to be an editor from a job point of view. I also happen to like food so here's my next metaphor:

Episode 19: Starting over in a Green field

February 12, 2011, 11:09 AM

http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2011/02/epi...

We originally talked about the concept of starting over in production with a Green field – no established starting points – in episode 11. In this episode we take it a little deeper as Terry and Philip revisit the subject. Another longish show, so put on a render, pull out the snow blower or take a long walk.

Contender – Editor Jon Harris, 127 Hours

February 11, 2011, 10:43 AM

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

"You hang around in the right spot long enough and sometimes you get lucky," says editor Jon Harris about his first opportunity to work with Oscar-winning director, Danny Boyle. He had previously worked on two horror films with 127 Hours producer Christian Colson who introduced him to the director when Chris Dickens, Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire editor, was unavailable to take on the film.

Allan Title - Cutting Yourself Out of A Corner

February 11, 2011, 10:26 AM

https://www.aotg.com/allan-title-cutting-yourself-out-of-a-corner-2/

Writer, Producer and Editor Allan Title describes how he crafted a dramatic story out of limited footage for a pilot reality show called "Arctic Roughnecks". For more information on Editfest NY please go to www.editfestny.com.

Edit Bay Eps. 28 - Lost in Translation

February 11, 2011, 09:11 AM

http://lfhd.net/2011/02/10/the-edit-bay-episode-28...

The twenty-eigth episode of THE EDIT BAY is now available for download. This one has me lost in translation.

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