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
They’re Assistant Editors, Not Gofers
November 12, 2010, 12:15 PM
https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...
According to the California Employ-ment Development Department, the way to become a film editor is to follow the career path from apprentice editor to assistant editor to full editor. By its calculation, this process should take about five years.
It’s Mixers vs. Editors as Audio Post Budgets
November 12, 2010, 12:13 PM
https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...
The Editors Guild held a roundtable discussion on industry trends in sound post-production over the summer––and heard an earful. Passionate professionals described how shrinking post-production budgets and a lack of understanding about the sound post workflow have created difficult situations for editors and mixers alike, as well as threatened the integrity of the creative process.
November 12, 2010, 12:13 PM
https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...
Created by former Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, AMC’s acclaimed Mad Men unveils the curiously alluring world of Don Draper, a top New York advertising man in the 1960s who has built his life around a series of lies. Nominated for 49 Emmys, and collecting 13, Mad Men has won both Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmy Awards and Best Television Series – Drama at the Golden Globes for the last three years in a row. As the fourth season was winding down, Editors Guild Magazine spoke with severa...
Rosenblum Returns to His Romantic Comedy Roots
November 12, 2010, 12:11 PM
https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...
It's funny how it has taken director Edward Zwick and editor Steven Rosenblum, A.C.E., eight films together to return again to their thirtysomething TV roots from the 1980s. But that’s exactly what they’ve done with Love and Other Drugs, a romantic comedy about the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales and the rise of Viagra in the 1990s, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, which opens November 24 through 20th Century Fox.
This Year, Book 'Em!
November 12, 2010, 12:04 PM
https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleI...
You know the year is coming to an end, and the holidays are just around the corner, when our annual gift guide returns to these pages. Kindles and iPads be damned; here are our recommendations of actual books on paper for the film fan on your list.
Meet Hot S*** Music Video Editor Dean Gonzalez pt1
November 10, 2010, 10:28 AM
http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3167
I had a riveting talk with Dean at an upscale bar and burger joint in Weho where he enthusiastically guided me through the thicket of videos he’s edited and explained his path to the cutting room. To say I was impressed by his attitude (energetic and friendly), what he’s done, and how hard he worked to get there would be an understatement. But let’s hear from the man himself.
POST PROD WEEK: POST 2 – SHOOT FOR THE EDIT
November 9, 2010, 03:18 PM
http://www.elskid.com/blog/post-prod-week-post-2-s...
You’ll hear this phrase from time to time muttered by knowing producers. Sounds ghastly, doesn’t it? So prosaic. Shooting is just so much sexier when it’s about beautiful images. On a side note, have you ever considered how brusque the lexicon of filmmaking is? We shoot, we cut, we clap, we call action – man’s work – hoohah! Unfortunately...
Things You Can and Can't Fix in Post
November 9, 2010, 03:14 PM
http://schubincafe.com/blog/2010/11/january-13-201...
"Things You Can and Can't Fix in Post: Acquisition Video" Keynote, Public Television Quality Group, 2011 NETA Conference, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN.
Editing TV’s 'The Mentalist'
November 9, 2010, 11:07 AM
https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?From...
"It’s all about the clues, what Patrick Jane sees or senses, and the journey to his conclusions," says The Mentalist picture editor David Ekstrom, who cuts the CBS series with Chris Cibelli, Glenn Farr and Jimmy Gadd. "The Mentalist differs from other shows that I’ve cut in recent years in that the pace of the show is driven by the process that our lead character uses to solve the crime," Ekstrom continues. "The exposition that would typically be on camera often takes place while he is...
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