"There’s a telling moment at the end of the credits of the new YouTube documentary, Life in a Day, released in cinemas this week. The penultimate credit reads, “Directed by Kevin Macdonald and”; the final credit has several hundred names – all amateurs who sent in footage to YouTube of what they were up to on July 24, 2010.
Thousands of hours of their footage was edited down to a chronological sweep through the day, and around the world. And the terrifying thing for Hollywood is that the amateur results are far more compelling than a hundred lowest common denominator blockbuster feature films, whether they’re Marvel Comic movies, gross-out films or romcoms – now Hollywood’s staple diet"............LINK
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