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Bob Tourtellotte

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – If you can't beat 'em, YouTube, join 'em.

Long since video-sharing website YouTube became an Internet sensation, media watchers have wondered how it crapper take users' craving for 2- or 3-minute videos and transform it into a hunger for full-length flick and TV-style content. On Thursday, Sundance Film Festival audiences got a prototypal taste.

To be sure, YouTube's full-length flick "Life In a Day" is nowhere nearby the scope of a send needed to attain YouTube a mediocre instruction for watching tone movies and TV shows as people do with Netflix, Hulu or iTunes. But it may be the start of something new, and YouTube insiders feature more is to come.

"Life In a Day" was a send planned by YouTube and carried discover by Scott Free Productions, the flick and TV consort run by acclaimed directors Ridley and Tony Scott. It was directed by accolade winner Kevin Macdonald from a concept planned by YouTube and flick shaper Liza Marshall.

The intent was simple, still in its enforcement very complex, its makers said mass weekday night's Sundance premiere. The idea: communicate YouTube users to enter digit full-day in their lives, July 24, 2010, and send in the video. The execution: from the footage, vantage unitedly a 90-minute movie.

Macdonald admitted whatever trepidation aweigh of the project. "We titled it an research because with an research you crapper fail," he told the Sundance crowd, "When we started to actualise the flick worked, we obstructed calling it an experiment."

The film's makers said when they put discover the call for enter back in July, they due to receive whatever 10,000 hours of footage. They got 80,000 hours.

4500 VIDEOS, 192 COUNTRIES

In all, they received 4500 videos from a wide arrange of people in 192 countries: teen filmmakers hunting for a break, and individuals and families who simply had a news to tell.

There is a Korean Negro motion the concern on his bicycle trying to attain the impossible, seem possible. There is a Japanese Negro -- a single parent -- caring for his son; a kinsfolk dealing with cancer in Chicago; an Amerindic plantsman employed in Dubai; a footgear happen pupil on the streets of Peru and a U.S. Negro spurned by a blackamoor he wants to date.

The film's makers said, oddly, they received a aggregation of recording of people's feet. Surprisingly, they said, most of the footage was "happy material" and it was hornlike to find "dark material."

Few major events happened on the day, with the omission of people being damaged at a "Love Parade" in Germany. But the demand of some bounteous "news" is what the makers seized upon.

"You focused not on the bounteous event, but on...the mediocre mortal on the street's analyse of life," Macdonald said. "Sometimes even the hackneyed info crapper be the most telling, and crapper be the most familiar and impinging for us to view."

The message of the flick -- and its makers admit it sounds "corny" and "cliched" -- is digit of connection. Regardless of where we live, what language we speak, or our circumstances in life, we every requirement to enter with others to attain our lives whole.

To further that point, YouTube streamed the execute around the concern springy on the Web.

Macdonald -- who won an accolade for "One Day in September" about the 1972 Olympics hostage crisis -- said making the flick gave him a newborn appreciation for the example and friendliness of amateur recording and "the category of things you crapper do with a lowercase tiny camera you can't do with a bounteous professed camera."

"Life in A Day" is being free by the flick division of National Geographic on July 24, 2011.

(Editing by Jill Serjeant)

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