On July 24th, 2010 executive producer Ridley Scott and co-director Kevin Macdonald set out do something unique with YouTube. They asked for anyone in the world to film part of their day and then submit the footage. They received 80,000 submissions from 192 countries, resulting in nearly 5,000 hours of content.
For months Macdonald worked with his team of twenty editors to create something special. And it is certainly something remarkable. I loved the stirring celebration of life in the film when I saw it at Sundance this year. You can check out my full review here and the trailer via YouTube (where else?) below for Life in a Day.
Life in a Day will be released exactly a year after the footage was taken, on July 24th, 2011.
What do you think about the trailer and the power of crowdsourced footage?