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
September 23, 2012, 04:03 PM
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On Tuesday evening, August 14, the Editors Guild's 75th Anniversary Committee continued its Flashback Screening series at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood with a prime example of one of cinema’s most stalwart genres, the Western. One of only two 35mm prints with 5.1 surround sound of Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) was presented, followed by a conversation with two long-time veterans of the Eastwood post-production team, editor Joel Cox, A.C.E., and supervising sound editor Alan...
September 23, 2012, 04:02 PM
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Perhaps because I work in this business, or just because I love movies so much, I’m always asked to define which ones I think are the classics. To me, that's simple: First, when it’s on, I have to watch it — no matter what. And second, I must bore my friends and family about it, quoting lines ad nauseam and reciting dialogue of which I'm particularly fond.
September 23, 2012, 04:01 PM
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You learn by doing. While that maxim certainly applies to life in general, it is especially applicable to post-production professionals. Editors Guild members are continually teaching themselves to work with new equipment and software, not just to stay on the bleeding edge of their particular profession, but — with the ever-changing technologies in their line of work — even to remain viable (let alone hirable) in their jobs.
September 23, 2012, 04:00 PM
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Although it has been only seven years since the first edition of A New History of Documentary Film, co-authored by the late Northwestern University film professor Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, its newly published second edition firmly establishes itself as the most thorough overview of the evolution, achievement and future of the documentary film to date.
September 23, 2012, 03:59 PM
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Here is an exceedingly practical tome, living every bit up to its name. Very well designed for a self-published book, it’s all in four-color printing with graphics, screen grabs and cartoons that provide very clear explication of the text. As a "distillation of concepts and best practices gained through more than 10 years of hands-on editing for many well-known companies," Kyra Coffie has written a guide around common editing pitfalls in Avid with step-by-step tasks. She also has worked...
September 23, 2012, 03:57 PM
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Television kept post-production people employed during the post-World War II years in New York. Feature film was a West Coast commodity, but the Madison Avenue advertising firms, such as J. Walter Thompson, Benton and Bowles and Hill and Knowlton, among others, were a major part of the "go-go" years in Manhattan. Editors in the East Coast Motion Picture Film Editors Guild, Local 771, which was founded in 1943, were the backbone of the advertising and television industry, working under heavy...
September 23, 2012, 03:56 PM
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Midway through George Cukor's Rich and Famous (1981), there is a scene that, all by itself, encapsulates the witty banter that was the director’s signature. The heroine of the film, a celebrated writer played by Jacqueline Bisset, is in her room at the Algonquin Hotel, ostensibly to be interviewed by a young Rolling Stone journalist (Hart Bochner). Bisset orders a drink from room service, but in the next few minutes, every one but room service shows up, including her best friend...
September 23, 2012, 03:55 PM
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Fun. Catherine Apple keeps saying that word while discussing Hotel Transylvania, the animated feature from Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia Pictures, which she edited. Opening September 28, in plenty of time for Halloween, the 3D film stars Adam Sandler, who voices Dracula and leads a cast that includes Andy Samberg, Kevin James, David Spade and Fran Drescher, among others. Sandler is also one of the producers.
September 23, 2012, 03:54 PM
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There's a revolution going on at JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and it has nothing to do with aliens, plane crashes or spies. It's a change in the way music is being integrated into post-production. Music editors Tom Trafalski and Brian Bulman are back for a second season at Bad Robot ready to begin work, respectively, on the upcoming season of Person of Interest (2011-present) and a new series coincidentally entitled Revolution. Abrams’ production company is known for the groundbreaking.....
September 23, 2012, 03:53 PM
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As part of their ongoing effort to gain recognition and acknowledgement for picture editors, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) launched a Petition for the Recognition of Editors in late June. The Committee for Creative Recognition, comprised of members from the Boards of Directors of both organizations, hopes to encourage film festivals and other organizations (both domestic and international) that present awards for achievement to honor the vital...
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Gordon sits down with Philip to discuss his work with Tyler Perry and his latest film A Madea Homeco...
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