Tomorrow is the day when the world is invited to capture interesting video and upload it to YouTube's Life In A Day project. After one week, executive producers Ridley Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer, along with director Kevin McDonald, will sift through the likely massive amount of footage. The best will comprise a movie titled Life In A Day, which will be a global record on what it was like to be alive on the planet Earth on July 24, 2010, which will premiere at next year's Sundance Film Festival. And if your footage is picked you'll be credited, and you're off to the premiere. It's that simple.
And it's about time somebody did this.
Other than the inaugural Survivor ten years ago, I've had enough with the reality thing, with people either sitting in houses sniffing roses and proposing, or building them in record time through leaky eyes (yes, Ty and his crew do help people, but at the end of the day, it's all about appliances, ratings and moola, truth be told).
And with seemingly random bits edited together into a cohesive whole, there's less chance that things will be emotionally stage-managed like on TV. At least not in the service of small nitpicky Jake and Vienna bullshit.
I can't say right now that I'll do someting awesome enough tomorrow to be included in Life. But I eagerly await its arrival.
And I will make a prediction: Life In A Day will earn a berth in the 2011 Oscar race, to be broadcast in 2012, Mayans be dammed...as Best Picture.
Life is just too much fun! Have a great day!
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