YouTube Film Impending Completion

Many of us would be hard-pressed to recollect what you were carrying out on 24 July this year.

But for many YouTube fanatics, pledge movie and documentary makers, or even only those extraordinary of a unique movie-making experiment, that day was the luck to create a tiny segment of cinematic history.

Kevin Macdonald, the Scottish executive famous for The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void, invited the immeasurable YouTube residents to outlay a couple of moments filming their day.

Their clips were then collated and are now being edited together by a group formed in London's Soho district.

Some 5,000 hours of footage - 80,000 particular clips - have been sculpted in to an hour and a half of underline movie due to be premiered at January's Sundance Film Festival.

If that sounds similar to a staggering task, that's because it is. Joe Walker, the film's editor, told BBC Digital Planet's Snezana Curcic about the overpowering routine .

"In the time report you had, that was primarily only a couple of months from beginning to finish, no one person could presumably see all that material.

"So the most appropriate thing you could do was set up an office with 24 researchers. Each of them was a really capable filmmaker, or somebody with a few documentary or the theater background."

The group sifted by the immeasurable amounts of video, wittling it down to around 200 hours of the most appropriate submissions.

Although the majority of the clips had to be left on the slicing room floor, all the submissions will sojourn on YouTube in their dedicated Life in A Day portal.

The film, that is still being edited by Mr Macdonald and his team, is attempting to etch a "single day on earth".

"I keep adage that it's similar to one person's story," Mr Macdonald says.

"It's only that every time you cut that person's essence goes with you but the body stays behind. It's roughly revelation the story of the world as one person, but one person that keeps mutating in form."

Before the plan began, Mr Macdonald realised that whilst it would be easy to obtain floods of calm from the wealthy, tech-savvy girl of the Western world, is to movie to indeed act for the world they would have to attain out to less-enabled communities.

"For Life In A Day to be indeed deputy you felt you had to then do something about that. We went out and paid for 400 in addition to cameras.

"Then you sent those cameras out to tools of Africa, Asia, Latin America - they were distributed to people in quite remote tools of the world.

"So a few of the element is really extraordinary for that reason."

Despite all of the clips arguably having no connection to any other - other than the day of filming - Mr Macdonald has done a few endeavor to tie them all up as uniformly as possible.

"It was a full moon that day.

"So with the initial gap coming after with the moon in assorted not similar countries - Malawi, South Africa, Australia.

"So you establish, correct at the beginning, this thought that this is about the whole world at the same time. I do not regard any person has done a movie similar to this. It hasn't been done before, and clearly it can only come about since the new technology."

Those technology hurdles supposing plenty headaches for Mr Walker, who had to attend to over 60 not similar support rates - the speed at that a shave is shot - to make the whole prolongation be present seamless.

He says the movie is about sufficient more than only your conventional unintentional YouTube clip.

"This plan has given us an opportunity to look somewhat more in-depth.

"There is a darker side to the story as well, you have a few really discouraging element that came from the Love Parade in Germany, for example, where the fact that there were so many kids there with mobile phones and Flipcams means that we've got a YouTuber's perspective of a awful misfortune receiving place step-by-step."

More than 500 people were harmed and 21 people were killed during a bolt at the dance celebration in the town of Duisburg.

"There are a few really intolerable clips," adds Mr Macdonald.

"You are authorised in, for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, to somebody's head who has a rare perspective of the way things function. There moreover are a couple of clips where you regard this person needs help, not a camera."

Yet, notwithstanding a few hard-hitting, romantic scenes, Mr Macdonald believes examination Life In A Day will be an fortifying experience.

"It's an confident film. It's a movie about how superb it is to be alive."