New YouTube Documentary Highlights Your Life on the Web

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Millions of people search YouTube for video footage everyday and wouldn’t you want to be one of those people who will take part in the new “Life in a Day” experiment set to launch July 24, 2010.  YouTube has teamed up with Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott to produce and document your life on a designated YouTube channel.  We have all heard of the rumors, but now you will be able to experience someone’s ordinary life events on camera.

Whether it is shopping in the grocery store, giving birth to a child, taking your kid to baseball practice, whatever it is, capture in on film and send in your personal documentary for the world to view.  Everyone has their own story that they want to share.  Have your 5 minutes of fame and show us what you got is basically what YouTube is saying.  They want to see it all, be creative and share your life with others, you might not be aware that you could be helping someone with just a little snapshot of your life.

Macdonald states, “Like a lot of filmmakers, I’m very anxious about the Internet because we see the piracy and people stealing our ideas and well, putting them on YouTube and that’s going to destroy the film industry like it destroyed the music industry.”  “This is the flip side of the coin. It’s about what’s really positive about the internet and the creativity that only the Internet is capable of.”

Kevin Macdonald has hired 10 editors, which will be in responsible for sifting through the entries.  YouTube is also asking everyone to take the terms serious, they want all entries to be suitable for broadcast.  Once they have narrowed down the entries, Macdonald and a senior editor will implement possibly your entry into a unique documentary.   

The hype has caused others to get involved with “Life in a Day” LG Electronics is going to be one of YouTube’s main supporters.  LG Electronics wants to see the drive that people have for things they love or just the average person handle the same regular task each day, but with good quality for others to view.  Whatever you imagine and turn into a movie is up to you, but the film YouTube selects will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. 

YouTube is excited to see the turnout and wants amateurs and even professionals to display their films.  All entries will be viewed, and once they have determined the finalist, the winner will be credited as co-director and be invited to the Sundance premiere.  Scott Free’s production company will own all rights to the final film, and it will also be placed on YouTube for everyone to see.