Did you enter a piece of film in the Life in a Day project this week? It all got a bit exciting last Sunday with people all around the world filming a snippet from their life that could make it into the world’s first user generated feature length documentary. YouTube has partnered with Ridley Scott and Slumdog director Kevin Macdonald to create the film that will premier at Sundance Film Festival next year. Life in a Day aims to create an intimate collage of life in a single day around the world, incorporating footage shot by YouTube users globally from last Sunday, July 24th. “Life in a Day is a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. It is a unique experiment in social filmmaking, and what better way to gather a limitless array of footage than to engage the world’s online community,” says Macdonald. Although he loves the fact he is in the hands of the amateur, the key creative guideline is that these clips are non-fiction and have a real sense of intimacy to them. You can follow the journey of the film on YouTube over the next few months and with professionals like MacDonald and Scott involved it will be worth watching.

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