Life in a Day, by Everyone
We’ve seen a few global experiments created on YouTube, like the YouTube Symphony. Here’s a new one that promises interesting results, and it’s sponsored by electronics giant LG.
Life in a Day promises to be the first crowdsourced, user generated feature film (and that’s certainly true if you add ‘created by a major Hollywood director’ to the list), and the concept sounds like a lot of fun. On July 24th, thousands of people worldwide filmed something from their lives. Many were YouTube users, but the team also sent high definition cameras to remote areas of the world with limited internet access. The project is ambitious – a feature length documentary one a single day on Earth, as experienced by a cast of thousands. The team involved is hoping for a few things – innovation, creativity, drama and high res visuals, and is hoping to avoid name brands, preset soundtracks and other muddling factors. But whatever they get, they’ll pore through the entries, and the film will be put together by Kevin MacDonald, director of The Last King of Scotland and produced by Ridley Scott.
The final film will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and twenty contributors will be chosen to attend. They, and all the others, will also receive co-directing credits.
Here’s the pitch:
