The eminent director Ridley Scott together with Kevin MacDonald is going to make a great movie, a documentary which will be shot by Youtube users from the whole world on a 24 July, 2010 thus leaving a document of life expression of global community to next generations!
McDonald, who made “The Last King of Scotland,” will direct the feature-length documentary and Scott, who helmed Oscar-winning “Gladiator” and a host of hits such as “Blade runner,” “Alien,” and “Thelma & Louise,” will produce it. Creative users will make a sort of archetype recordings of their ordinary life on that day, upload them and MacDonald will compile the best shots. Users of the chosen works will be signed as collaborators, and twenty of them will be invited to come to Sundance film festival, on a „Life in a Day“ premiere.
To participate, YouTube users must upload their footage to YouTube.com/lifeinaday. This is indeed a unique idea and experiment in the history of film industry.
MV
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66611H20100707
One of the most emotional film I’ve seen in a long time.
You can argue that some of it might be slightly heavy-handed (a shot of a cow being killed on camera is then, non very subtlety, cut together with a man eating from a bowl of spaghetti), but some of the choices are absolutely inspired
It’s the amalgamation of all these little snippets of life that makes the film an incredible watch and in the end it ends up actually telling a story as the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Check out my full review:
http://wp.me/p19wJ2-lu