"What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material -- all shot on July 24, 2010 -- and created Life in a Day, a groundbreaking, feature-length documentary that portrays this kaleidoscope of images we call life.
"Life in a Day is a documentary film project born out of a partnership between YouTube, Ridley Scott Associates and LG electronics, announced on July 6, 2010. Users sent in videos of themselves on July 24, 2010, and then Ridley Scott produced the film and edited the videos into a film with director Kevin MacDonald and film editor Joe Walker, consisting of footage from some of the contributors. The completed film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 140 nations. The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011 and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube. The film's music was written by British composer and producer Harry Gregson-Williams, along with Matthew Herbert. The film's opening song, written by Herbert, was performed by British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding. On January 24, 2011, National Geographic Films announced that it had received the distribution rights for the film."
The video embedded above is from the full-length movie. Here is the Wikipedia entry. Not super-duper great, but quite interesting for concept and for execution.
Addendum: A tip of the blogging hat to an anonymous reader who found the video to replace the trailer I had originally embedded, and also found the 2020 Life in a Day movie online at YouTube Videos:
Age-restricted probably for the scenes of women in labor/giving birth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsSc2iksC0 1:25:54 Life in a Day 2020 | Official Documentary
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFVr_cJJIY 1:34:56 Life In A Day 2010 Film
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZpHmUwHNSI 1:27:24 Life in a Day 2020 | Director’s Cut
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anon. I've embedded both into the body of the post. :-)
ReplyDeletePerhaps the idea to this film came from the 2009 TV docuseries “24h Berlin – Ein Tag im Leben”. It is a 24 hour long TV documentary that shows a day in the life of people from all walks of life in Berlin. It followed people from rich and famous people like Daniel Baremboim rehearsing his latest concert to a drug addict who showed the shrug underneath which he takes his drugs. There were a taxi driver, a call center worker, a high end boutique owner, people getting married, a person dying, a person giving birth, a child, an old lonely person; lot’s of other people old and young, different religions, all very different people in different circumstances. The documentary started at 6 am and followed each people a couple of minutes at a time during the day. I loved it, all these people showed a little glimpse of their everyday life, it was really interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe same production team made in 2014 a similar documentary of Jerusalem: 24h Jerusalem. An equally captivating documentary of everyday life in Jerusalem.
In 2019 there was “24h Europe: the next generation” in which young people in different European countries were followed. Unfortunately I saw only parts of this.
(Hello Minnesotastan, I’m a long time follower of your great blog. I’m a Non-native English speaker from Finland, please pardon my spelling and grammar mistakes.)
Greetings and welcome, Anonymous Lurker from Finland. :-)
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