YouTube asks punters to help them document one day on earth to create feature length doco produced by Ridley Scott
YouTube’sLife in a Day project is asking YouTube users to shoot and upload a fewminutes of their day as part of a global experiment which will attemptto document one day on earth, this Saturday 24 July. The best YouTubeclips will be used to create feature-length documentary directed by theOscar winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott.
Entrantscan film the ordinary (the commute to work, a neighborhood soccermatch) or the extraordinary (a baby’s first steps, their reaction tothe 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 asco-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.