28.07.11
Crowdsourcing on an international scale
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, July 29, 2011
Cobbled together from vaccination with 80,000 images anonymous filmmakers from around the world in a single day - July 24, 2010 - "one in a day" has a credit co-production by YouTube. With such a pedigree, one would expect that the main result of the film would feature a mishmash of stupid animal tricks, stunts and skateboarding forgettable parodies long history, although it has been shaped by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald impresario.
You would be wrong.
Despite the lack conventional description, other than sleeping, waking, rising, washing, eating and life cycles of those routine across the globe, "Life in a Day" is, without exaggeration, a deep realization . Alternatively strange, scary, boring, moving, beautiful and amateurism is a matter quite spectacular: a film that manages to feel crowdsourcing singular and whole. This is less the realization of Macdonald and his publishers - who sifted through 4,500 hours of clips, the organization of the PIC in a roughly chronological journey, from 0:00 to 0:00 - it's a simple, really the life: We are not so different.
Source: Washington Post