Life in a Day
In the year of 2010 two companies paired up with YouTube to create a virtual time capsule if you will. Each YouTube member was asked to film one day in their life. With each accompanied submission, these users were asked to submit a video along with their submission that answered a few questions that the producers were looking for. some of these questions included "what do you love?" "whats in your pockets?" "what makes you sad angry or happy?"
The producer, Ridley Scott, intended this project to be a personification of the end user's experience of the internet. each small clip representing the user's experience as he or she flips from one page to the next. I myself in fact spent an entire saturday down in denver filming my submission for this film.
I feel as though this was beneficial to the public because It was a way for global unification without the interference of government personnel. Not only did it unify people across the globe in a single movement, It is a way for other people to catch a glimpse of how other people are living their lives. This film is paving the future about how we preserve our past. Each culture has their own was of preserving their beliefs, but this was a global movement that will be forever captured in time, to be relived time and time again.
Although there are over 4,500 hours of footage from over 80,000 submissions on YouTube, here is the trailer for the completed film.
Brandon,
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting project and one I'd like to spend more time looking at. Thanks for posting.
I think unification through design and/or art is always a really cool idea. I wish I had known about the project myself and I definitely would have participated. I'm just wondering what the follow up is going to be like with this project. Maybe it could become a cool series that comes out every 2 years or so.
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