New York — Earlier this summer, YouTube commenced its “Life in a Day” video project. The Google owned social-networking site is following up on the next phase of its enterprising Life In A Day project by making video submissions from around the globe available through a new gallery page. Now, you have a chance to see some of the 80,000+ results received in one eclectic gallery.
A “Life in a Day” channel available at the famed video-sharing website that allows people to see glimpses from July 24 captured by cameras as part of an experiment to create a documentary about a single day on Earth.
Participants were asked to record a 24-hour glimpse of their lives on camera on July 24, making for one giant documentary of what goes on during single day on this planet. A total of 80,000 videos were forwarded from 197 countries in what YouTube billed as a project to create “the world’s largest user-generated film.”
Even though this “global experiment” is now available to screen through online, the project is set to be edited into one concise film, with Kevin Macdonald directing and Ridley Scott as the executive producer.
“Now, you can view many of these videos in the gallery on the Life in a Day channel,” said Nate Weinstein of YouTube entertainment marketing. “To make browsing easy, you can sort videos by geography, time of day, mood and more.”
The channel is at youtube.com/lifeinaday.
Scott is the Oscar-winning director of “Blade Runner,” “Gladiator,” “Thelma and Louise” and many other hit films, and Academy Award-winning director Macdonald directed “The Last King of Scotland,” “Touching the Void,” “One Day in September” and other films.
The objective is to choose representative clips from the submissions and edit them into a documentary that will be unveiled at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. YouTube will also debut the film online on the same day that it is screened at Sundance.
Google-owned YouTube portrays the project as a “historic cinematic experiment” designed to “document one day, as viewed through the eyes of people around the world.”
Contributors whose footage makes the final cut will be credited as co-directors and 20 will be selected to attend the premiere. Videos are being constantly added to the gallery page as they are reviewed by Macdonald and his team, so more will become available as time goes on.
With those two names attached to the project, there are some high hopes for what we will see when the movie debuts at the Sundance Film Festival this January. If you can not make it to Park City, Utah, do not worry. It will also be available on YouTube early next year as well. For now, you can check out the rough footage now.