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

We are so fortunate to be paid to be creative

September 23, 2010, 04:58 PM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-are...

Despite my pension for bitching about our business, which I will admit I tend to do a bit too much, I feel so fortunate that I am able to make a living doing something I enjoy. I am 50 years old and my passion for filmmaking hasn't subsided and has actually increased since I started freelancing a few years ago.

It needs to look like Avatar & we only have $5

September 23, 2010, 03:20 PM

http://ronsussmanedits.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-nee...

Occasionally, in the 20+ years that I have been a editor a client has presented storyboards with a budget that was far too low to effectively execute within their budgetary limitations. I would wonder were is the person at the agency telling the client that "these lofty and ambitious goals can not be done within their budget and here is an idea that will work with the money you have".

A video for Post-Prodcution

September 23, 2010, 10:01 AM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

This very well produced and very topical video is making the rounds today. I saw it via Twitterer beerad who is one of the co-creators. It certainly took someone some time and effort and as a post-production nerd who gets most of the references in the video I thank them for it! Motion graphics people will probably enjoy it most of all. NSFW.

Perspectives on Editing: Advice for Assistants

September 22, 2010, 04:42 PM

http://www.oscars.org/video/watch/ev_editing_03_ap...

Film editors Anne Coates, Donn Cambern, Walter Murch, Lois Freeman-Fox, Nancy Frazen, Mark Goldblatt, John Carnochan and Kent Beyda describe the qualities they look in apprentice editors.

The Cutting Room Eps. 40 - Andrew Weisblum

September 22, 2010, 12:13 PM

https://www.aotg.com/the-cutting-room-eps-40-andrew-weisblum/

This week Gordon interviews Andrew Weisblum, editor of Wrestler, Fantastic Mr. Fox and the current Black Swan.

Films that Inspire and Influence Pt. 2

September 21, 2010, 08:51 AM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3030

In the last post I probed the subject of films that influence filmmakers. In this concluding post I’ll look at the film that most influenced me. And the film is... The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I saw it seven times in my twenties during the 1970s, long after it debuted in 1969. And I intend to re-view it this winter when the nights are long and cold and the TV set is warm and glowing. I’ll let you know how I react then.

Different approaches to a career in the Edit Room

September 21, 2010, 08:39 AM

http://cutlertv.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/different...

This post is really in reply to another blog post which I first saw here, so please have a read of that first. I feel that it’s a more complex issue than Tej suggests over there but rather than start hammering my keys into that comments section, I thought I would have a look at it in a more constructive way in this blog.

Thelma Schoonmaker interview Karlovy Vary

September 20, 2010, 11:41 AM

https://www.aotg.com/thelma-schoonmaker-interview-karlovy-vary/

Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker discusses the work of her late husband, director Michael Powell and her own work with Martin Scorsese in an interview at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic in July 2010.

Bob Murawski and Chris Innis interview - Part 3

September 19, 2010, 12:45 PM

https://www.aotg.com/bob-murawski-and-chris-innis-interview-part-3/

Interview by Jim Healy in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House on May 6, 2010. Murawski and Innis both won Oscars for editing for THE HURT LOCKER. Here they primarily discuss their work on GONE WITH THE POPE.

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