Life in a Day: YouTube launches movie about your life
Google starts on its YouTube video platform is an interesting experiment: Each owner of a video camera or a camera phone is called upon to acknowledge a day of his life in the picture.
Then, Hollywood stars tinker it into a movie.
With "Life in a Day" will Google the differences and similarities of 6.7 billion people portray in a movie. The collected video material is the Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (including "The Last King of Scotland - are in the grip of power") as the basis for his documentary. Together with his producer RidleyScott (including "Gladiator," "Blade Runner") is Macdonald piecing a film that one day, 24 July 2010 is shown from every conceivable perspective.
The crucial point is that not some staged scenes are shot, but just what a wiederfährt in everyday life. Completely banal moments like working at your desk are just looking for pictures of a wedding or as a reaction to a negative event.
The finished film will be celebrating at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 premiere. Among all, the footage made it to the final production, 20 amateur filmmakers will be drawn to be invited to the premiere party. To participate in the project, you have to do no more than 24 July, the video camera to have around, a few snapshots of everyday life then this aufzunehmenund 30 July in the YouTube channel of "Life in a Day" to upload. There, the video is even if it was not selected for the film, remain as the eternal document.
(Cel)
