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
Editors Guild Magazine Article : LA Film Critics B
April 3, 2013, 02:14 PM
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On Saturday evening, January 12, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) presented its 38th Annual Awards at a gala dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City. Post-production personnel attending the celebration had a special reason to celebrate this event as LAFCA premiered its award for the year’s Best Editing. Sharing LAFCA’s first Best Editing award were Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E., and William Goldenberg, A.C.E., for their work on Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial Zero Dar...
Editors Guild Magazine Article : With God (and Ded
April 3, 2013, 02:14 PM
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Not long ago, Richard Marks, A.C.E., sat down and began watching his old movies — not just his best-known movies or his personal favorites, but all of them. The four-time Academy Award- and ACE Eddie Award-nominated editor says it was “a strange experience” to be reminded of the tens of thousands of decisions — large and small — that he made in the cutting rooms of such films as Apocalypse Now (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983) and As Good As It Gets (1997).
Editors Guild Magazine Article : The Grown-Ups of
April 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
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Lawrence Silk, A.C.E., links his interest in documentaries to an early social consciousness, derived in part from his parents. As a teenager, Silk’s father had guided Eugene Debs through factories near Pittsburgh and, when they moved from Detroit to New York’s Washington Heights, Silk was well aware of the plight of the German Jewish refugees from the war, who were his classmates.
Correcting Oscar’s Six-Year Snubs
April 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
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Of the many crafts essential to making movies, only editing came into existence because of the medium itself. Cinematography grew out of photography. Art direction grew out of theatrical design. Sound recording existed independently for decades before its marriage to the moving image. But film editing is a technical and aesthetic craft unique to the motion picture.
Editing and Effects are now Combined
April 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
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MagazineAutodesk’s Smoke has long been known for high-end finishing and effects, as does its higher-end cousin Flame, which is widely used for real-time color grading, compositing and visual effects on films like Iron Man 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, as well as numerous television productions and commercials.
Editors Guild Magazine Article : POSTSCRIPT
April 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
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Congratulations to those who took home Oscars in the Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories of the Academy Awards, as well as their award-winning colleagues at the American Cinema Editors (ACE), Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) and Cinema Audio Society (CAS) awards ceremonies — some of whom may be one and the same. The winners have already been announced by the time you are reading this, although none of them were determined when I was writing this at press time.
From the Guild : EDITORS LOUNGE LOOKS AT TECH TREN
April 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
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On Friday evening, March 22, with spring in the air, the 10th anniversary edition of the Editors Lounge Pre-NAB Discussion Panel convened at Key Code Media in Burbank. Billed as an opportunity for attendees to learn the panelists’ opinions about business and technical trends in a swiftly changing post-production environment, the evening did not disappoint. After in-depth discussion about the future of 3D, 4K, High Frame Rate, Multi-Screen, the Cloud, and the three As — Adobe, Apple and Avid ...
The Post-Heavy Iron Age
April 3, 2013, 02:12 PM
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As you probably know, Danny Cahn, A.C.E., resigned his post as President of this Guild this past December, citing personal reasons. In keeping with the Guild constitution and by-laws, as Vice President, I have assumed the Presidency. In addition, Alan Heim, A.C.E., has been selected by the Board of Directors to fill my vacated position. Danny accomplished many things to the great benefit of our union during his two years in office, and I want to thank him for his service and wish him well in his...
Filmmaking's Quiet Heroes
April 3, 2013, 02:12 PM
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The picture editor’s role in the creation of a movie has always been shadowed by the mystique of the film director. Many people think that the director is the guiding hand to the robot film editor. The director does little to discourage this idea in interviews with film critics, many of who themselves do not understand the editing process. Few histories of the movies even analyze the editing process, much less mention the editor. Sadly, because oral histories of film and sound editors were neg...
THE ORGANIZER'S TALE
April 3, 2013, 02:12 PM
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With so many screens showing sequels, remakes, and generic plots readily reduced to loglines, it can seem as though our industry, while perhaps profligate in other respects, exercises extreme parsimony in its conservation of stories. As if out of fear of exhausting a natural resource, studios appear eager to repeatedly recycle the same few tales ad infinitum.
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