YouTube’s Life In A Day: The making of a documentary

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Ten years ago, YouTube launched a global experiment to create the world’s largest user-generated feature film. The result was a documentary made from footage all shot on a single day, “by you”. Exactly 10 years on, executive producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) and Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (Whitney, Last King of Scotland) reunite for Life In A Day 2020. Over the course of six months In the Studio follows the team – hearing from Kevin, the editors and Ridley - as they wrestle with 324,000 videos from 192 countries and create a new film. We also catch up with award-winning composer Matthew Herbert, as he endeavours to score the film by using a myriad of sounds from the submitted footage. Presenter/producer: Ella-mai Robey