Nice piece of synchronicity here as the next part of our advanced multimedia module focuses on making a short film with your mobile device; Maybe the most famous example of this is the ‘Life In a Day’ project which is helmed by Ridley Scott:
Life in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, July 24, 2010.
The film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 140 nations.
The film was the creation of a partnership among YouTube, Ridley Scott Associates and LG electronics, announced on July 6, 2010. Users sent in videos supposed to be recorded 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. All chosen footage authors are credited as co-directors.
Crowdsourcing video’s huh? Sound familiar at all? Catch the movie this Thursday at 9pm on BBC2.
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