Posts
“It’ll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200 years could look at that and say ‘Oh my god, that’s what it’s like — a portrait of the world in a day.’”
Of course, this is what YouTube and the rest of the social web do already:
They document our lives. But by carefully curating these clips into a unified creative vision, MacDonald hopes to make something far more meaningful than a random sampling of YouTube videos dated the same day typically would.
To participate, simply film something happening Saturday (guidelines follow) and then look for the “submit” button that will appear on the “Life in a Day” YouTube channel, Saturday, July 24. MacDonald advises participants to shoot high-quality video of any length and save their uncompressed footage in case their videos are selected for inclusion.
The project will be more effective if MacDonald can weave together thematic threads that connect people’s videos, so in addition to the guidelines linked from this page, he mentions the a few examples of the sort of “little snapshots from your lives” that he’ll be looking for:
“something banal” like going to work or breakfast time
the sunrise
your baby doing something interesting
going to the hospital to visit a friend
your birthday
going for a walk in the countryside
or something “much more meaningful and emotional,” such as the demolition of your favorite building or the death of a friend
your wedding
Overall, MacDonald asks participants to answer the following four questions:
What do you fear the most (he mentions snakes, population explosion, climate change, the witch who lives next door)?
What do you love?
What makes you laugh?
What is in your pocket? (In MacDonald’s case, he had an iPhone in a case, keys, a “very cheap pen” given to him by Donald Sutherland and a tissue.)
No comments:
Post a Comment