“Life In A Day” Is a Shallow YouTube Branding Campaign

storytelling 28 January 2011 | 1 Comment

In tracking the trajectory of the Life In A Day project – the well publicized collaboration between YouTube and Ridley Scott’s company, I have asked some provocative questions and made some educated guesses on how it would turn out.  So, to the question we all ask when we watch a film –What is it ABOUT?–I [...]

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Crowdsourced Feature “Life In A Day” to Premiere

storytelling 21 January 2011 | 0 Comments

The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]

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Dear Ridley Scott: Is “Life In A Day” About Anything?

storytelling 9 July 2010 | 2 Comments

The best part of Ridley Scott’s video pitch for “Life In A Day” is him slipping into the fact that a vodka martini makes him happy. This precious nugget, at 1:07 in the clip below might had been missed had it not been for the weird and suddenly useful subtitling provided. Before you throw me [...]

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