Life in a Day

Synopsis: A historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, compiled from footage shot on the same day by anyone from around the world. The aim is to document a single day on earth through a multitude of perspectives - ordinary and extraordinary - all shot on 24 July 2010. It brings together footage from more than 80,000 videos submitted to YouTube, totalling 4500 hours of content, and combines 331 clips into a 95-minute film crafted by Kevin Macdonald, executive producer Ridley Scott, producer Liza Marshall and their team, in association with YouTube. Contributions poured in from 192 countries from Australia to Zambia, Peru to Ukraine, UK to Japan - from the heart of bustling cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth. Many of the entries were submitted via YouTube, while a number came from cameras that were handed out by contacts in the developing world.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2011
Notes: Broadcast on 3/11/2011 on BBC2
Subjects: Social Studies; Geography
Keywords: social anthropology; social geography; social history

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