ARTICLE: First user-generated feature-length documentary.
From USA Today via Frank Baker's listserve...
Macdonald, Scott make 'a time capsule' on film for YouTube
Circle July 24 on your calendar. That's when YouTube and a pair of renowned filmmakers plan to change the way the world sees itself.
Citizens from around the globe are invited to participate in what is being called the first user-generated feature-length documentary by providing footage shot during the same 24 hours on that day. Titled Life in a Day, the experiment is being sponsored by the online clip site and involves directors Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, Gladiator), who will executive-produce.
The end result, with entries selected by Macdonald and a team of editors, will premiere at next year's Sundance Film Festival and will be available free on YouTube. The submission deadline is July 31, and a video gallery is scheduled to be posted in August.
"YouTube wanted to do something to mark its fifth anniversary and decided on a film," says Macdonald, whose non-fiction work includes the 2003 mountain-climbing adventure Touching the Void. "I came up with an idea that appealed to me as a student of documentaries, one that would only be possible with the new technology on the Web."
Read the entire article here.
Macdonald, Scott make 'a time capsule' on film for YouTube
Circle July 24 on your calendar. That's when YouTube and a pair of renowned filmmakers plan to change the way the world sees itself.
Citizens from around the globe are invited to participate in what is being called the first user-generated feature-length documentary by providing footage shot during the same 24 hours on that day. Titled Life in a Day, the experiment is being sponsored by the online clip site and involves directors Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, Gladiator), who will executive-produce.
The end result, with entries selected by Macdonald and a team of editors, will premiere at next year's Sundance Film Festival and will be available free on YouTube. The submission deadline is July 31, and a video gallery is scheduled to be posted in August.
"YouTube wanted to do something to mark its fifth anniversary and decided on a film," says Macdonald, whose non-fiction work includes the 2003 mountain-climbing adventure Touching the Void. "I came up with an idea that appealed to me as a student of documentaries, one that would only be possible with the new technology on the Web."
Read the entire article here.
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