YouTube asks punters to help them document one day on earth to create feature length doco produced by Ridley Scott
YouTube’s Life in a Day project is asking YouTube users to shoot and upload a few minutes of their day as part of a global experiment which will attempt to document one day on earth, this Saturday 24 July. The best YouTube clips will be used to create feature-length documentary directed by the Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott.
Entrants can film the ordinary (the commute to work, a neighborhood soccer match) or the extraordinary (a baby’s first steps, their reaction to the passing of a loved one) and upload the footage to www.youtube.com/lifeinaday. Those people whose footage makes it into the film will be credited as co-directors and 20 of the contributors will be flown to Park City, Utah, for the film’s world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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damn.
even youtube is using youtube to rip off people’s ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Nj72EZZvs
get over it.
Even ‘Rocky’ had a montage! MONTAGE!
Tut tut Ridley.
A Day In The Life was a great series created some 20+ years ago.
The first was A Day In The Life of Australia, when a group of photographers from around the world descended on every inch of Australia and all shot on the one day.
The idea then went global. Like a DITL of Spain etc. the publishers etc., worked out of Tony Stewart and Ian Watson’s SRW’s offices in Kings Cross.
So, Life In A Day seems a little um, aah, derivative for some who can remember that long ago.