Life in a Day
A documentary that is going to be made out of footage shoot on the 24th of July 2010 and submitted on YouTube by You Tube users from around the world.
The documentary will be produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald, director of " State of Play" and " the Last King of Scotland". It's going to be what they call "The first user-generated feature-length documentary" . And it will be premiere in January at the Sundance film Festival.
Users whose footage will make it into the documentary will be credited as "co-directors" and 20 of them will be flown to Sundance.
Scott Free "Ridley Scott Prods" will work with Rick Smolan, creator of "A Day in the Life" and CEO of Against All Odds Prods., a California-based organization that specializes in the execution of large-scale global projects, to distribute cameras to people in remote regions of the world in an effort to ensure that the film is as inclusive and representative as possible.
"'Life in a Day' is a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. It is a unique experiment in social filmmaking, and what better way to gather a limitless array of footage than to engage the world's online community," Macdonald said.
"A vital part of our mission is to support individual storytelling around the globe and to provide a platform for expression and experimentation," Sundance director John Cooper said. "This is a great way to engage the YouTube community and to provide festival audiences with something new and unexpected."
Want to take part?
Here’s what to do.
1. Visit the “Life in a Day” channel and learn more about the project. Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.
2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.
3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel any time before July 31.
Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the “Life in a Day” channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.
1. Visit the “Life in a Day” channel and learn more about the project. Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.
2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.
3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel any time before July 31.
Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the “Life in a Day” channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.
i would love to see the final result , but definitely the whole project too :)
Would you love to see how did millions of people live on this coming day, how can our lives are turn to be similar or different .
Let's post an entry in our blogs stating what did we do in that day " the 24th of July" if we can not participate in this beautiful project :)
Oh, that sounds like a very neat idea. Yes, it would be interesting to read/see what people did on that day. Cultural things are interesting to me! You'll have to remind us on the 22nd or 23rd so we'll take notice of what we do. :) Neat idea!
BalasHapusVery nice .. I like the idea
BalasHapusI will try to remember to write about my life in that day, and to see the videos in the channel
Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Susanne,
BalasHapusi have to remember this myself , lol, and remind people about it :)
Whisper,
BalasHapusyou are welcome :)
and i do hope that we all remember to record our day that day, just for once in our lives maybe .