How the user-generated film 'Life in a Day' was made (via Wired UK)

via wired.co.uk

By Katie Scott,17 June 11

""Herculean" is how film editor Joe Walker describes the task that faced his team in the production of Life in a Day -- the user-generated film that hits UK screen today.

To make this 90-minute menagerie, which documents one day -- 24 July, 2010 -- around the world, his team watched and logged key words for 80,000 videos from 197 countries. "We sat the team in front of iMacs, gave them a lot of coffee, chocolate and biscuits, and told to get on with viewing," Walker told Wired.co.uk.

In fact, they watched 4,500 hours of footage, which had been uploaded to YouTube in response to a request by film director and documentary maker Kevin MacDonald (One Day in September and Touching the Void)...."

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