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08/05/10--18:48: Ridley Scott’s Life in a Day Receives 80,000 Submissions (chan 1674978)

Don’t you love it when someone big does something cool instead of something crappy? I kid Ridley! But honestly, this sounds way more cool than a remake of Robin Hood- it uses both modern technology and it’s an original idea! Yay!Ridley Scott’s “Scott Free UK” project begins editing 4600 hours of footage in order to complete the documentary film: Life in a Day. The film could only be made with the help of you out there. They asked for submissions for YouTube’s Life in a Day (don’t try to submit, the deadline has passed) and they received over 80,000 submissions and representing 197 countries, in 45 different languages. Scott said of the project…“I’m thrilled at the success of the Life in a Day project to date. The sheer number of uploads to the channel is astonishing and exceeds our expectations. I’m as fascinated as anyone by what kind of videos people have uploaded and the kind of film which will result from this innovative endeavor.”Here’s the info I was sent…As the project moves into its next phase, Director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) has assembled a team of 20 to log and vet the submissions. Macdonald says of the process, “We’re excited by both the quality and quantity of submissions. We’re now faced with the daunting task of selecting and shaping the wonderful array of diverse stories that have been captured around the globe. Luckily, I have an amazing team of skilled researchers who speak all manner of languages currently helping me catalogue and distill the clips. We’re hoping to soon have a more manageable 100 hours worth of footage to edit down into feature length form. It’s a mountain, but we’re eager to climb it.”Users will also be able to view the submissions when the gallery goes live on YouTube’s Life in a Day channel in early September. The final, feature-length film will be completed in time for a January 2011 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will simultaneously be made available at YouTube.com.Footage from remote regions in South Africa, the Middle East and Africa have been uploaded to the site thanks to the efforts of many groups and organizations that participated. Scott Free Productions worked with Against All Odds to distribute 500 cameras to these areas of the world in an effort to ensure that the film is as inclusive and representative as possible. The Sundance Institute also had participants of their first-ever East Africa Theatre lab, taking place in Kenya, upload their own footage.Life in a Day is a historic global film experiment that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on Saturday, July 24 and to upload that footage to www.youtube.com/lifeinaday. Individuals whose footage makes it into the finished film will be credited as co-directors and 20 of these contributors will be flown to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for the film’s world premiere.Life in a Day is one of several efforts by YouTube to push the boundaries of music, art, and now film. YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the recently announced YouTube Play partnership with the Guggenheim are examples of the convergence of online video with traditional arts and Life in a Day takes this effort into the cinematic realm. The channel received 18.7MM page views with visitors from 220 countries since it went live on July 7.Pretty coo, huh?Related Posts


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08/16/10--09:00: LOL: ‘The Auction Site’ Movie Trailer [eBay Social Network Parody] (chan 1674978)

Yes, it seems everyone and their mother are making fake movie trailer parodies based on David Fincher’s The Social Network. It’s become akin to the Hitler/Downfall subtitle meme of 2006. Over the past few weeks we’ve received a couple movie trailer parodies: The Other Social Network, which told the story about Tom and his “friends”, “The Video Website,”about YouTube and The Twit Network, about Twitter. The newest submission is The Auction Site, which you guessed it — is a highly fictionalized/dramatized telling of the story of eBay. Watch the fuax trailer now, embedded after the jump.

• LOL: ‘The Twit Network’ Movie Trailer
• LOL: The Video Website Movie Trailer (Social Network Parody)
• One Minute Trailer: David Fincher’s The Social Network
• The F**king International Version of The Social Network Movie Trailer
• LOL: Movie Trailer for ‘The Other Social Network’
• Movie Trailer: The Social Network




08/20/10--07:22: Katrina – Brand Ambassador Of Ethiad Airways (chan 1674978)


August 20, 2010: Ethiad Airways has chosen Katrina Kaif as its brand ambassador.




08/21/10--03:16: Hempfest 2010 Started at Myrtle Edwards Park, Seattle (chan 1674978)

Seattle Hempfest is an annual event which is carried out in Seattle, Washington. It is a world’s largest annual gathering advocating decriminalization of marijuana. Seattle Hempfest is ‘Two Days’, and is held the third weekend in August each year. This time Seattle Hempfest is on August 21-22, 2010. Timing of events is from 10 a.m. [...]




09/18/10--11:32: Apprentice, The > Season 10 (+1) (chan 1674978)




10/27/10--15:00: George Clooney's The Ides of March Gets Backing (chan 1674978)

Exclusive Media Group and Cross Creek Pictures are teaming to finance George Clooney's fourth film as director, The Ides of March (formerly Farragut North ), co-producing with Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House Pictures, who recently produced the summer hit The American , and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions.




01/11/11--11:46: L.A. off-lot productions up 15% (chan 1674978)

Film News: Gains in Film, TV while commercial sees surge -- Off-lot production in the Los Angeles area increased by 15% last year, thanks largely to unexpected fourth-quarter gains in feature production and TV along with a surge in commercial shooting.





07/05/11--15:00: Spike Lee to Direct Oldboy Remake? (chan 1674978)

Twitch reports that Spike Lee is in talks to direct the remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy .

In the 2003 Korean original, a man gets kidnapped and held in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation.




08/08/11--04:10: Ad Chat - Laura Jordan Bambach (Adland) (chan 1674978)

This week we chat with Laura Jordan Bambach, the executive creative director at LBi , seen on twitter as @laurajaybee . She's up for election as a D&AD Executive , her profile is here and you can hop over to vote here . What's your favorite funny story about yourself? - Hmm.




10/05/11--18:08: Baltimore Special Event: The Raven (chan 1674978)

BALTIMORE!!