YouTube and the Sundance Institute have teamed with Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien) and Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland) to create an experimental film featuring clips from the general public depicting a day in their lives.  According to their YouTube page, “Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you… The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.” 

The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and be available on YouTube.  All contributors whose footage is used will be credited as co-directors and twenty of them will be invited to attended the festival premiere.

All footage must be shot on July 24, “Every contributor to Life In A Day will be a part of cinematic history, participating in the largest crowd-sourced film ever made and creating a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.”

To participate you must be over 13 and your film can not contain any third party footage.  It can consist of one clip or several and cover one event or the entire day.  However the film does not need to be edited, they are looking for raw footage that they can edit into one cohesive film.  If you’re film is selected you will need to be able to get release forms from anyone in the footage.

In addition to your footage you can film an additional video answering one or all of several questions Kevin Mcdonald has posed including: What do you love?; What do you fear?; What makes you laugh? and What’s in your pocket?  Is there a story behind any of the objects?

When you have completed your filmming submit it by July 31 on YouTube.com  You will find a “submit” tab with instructions on the Life In A Day page beginning July 24.

For more information visit www.youtube.com/lifeinaday