But for many YouTube fanatics, amateur films and filmmakers or just those curious a unique experiment of movies, that day was the ability to produce a small part of film history.
Kevin Macdonald, Scottish filmmaker famous for the last King of Scotland and Touching the Void, invited the vast YouTube community to spend a few moments to shooting their day.
Their clips were then collected and are being edited together by a team based in Soho, London.
Approximately 5,000 hours of footage-80,000 individual clips-have been sculpted in an hour and a half of film due to be awarded at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Continue readingthe main story it has not been done before, and of course can happen only because of new technology. "End quote Kevin Macdonald Director if that sounds like a monumental task, which is why is Joe Walker, editor of the film, narrated Snezana Mali Losinj-apartments-rooms-accommodation-vaccation-Croatia-Travel-Curcic of BBC Digital planet the tiresome process.
"In the schedule time that we had, which was basically just a few months from beginning to end, no one could see all of that material.
"So the best thing we can do an Office was set up with 24 researchers. Each of them was very clever, a Director or someone with some behind-the-scenes documentary or fiction ".
The team sifted through the vast amount of video, currency up to approximately 200 hours of the best comments.
Although most clips should be left on the cutting room floor, all submissions will remain on YouTube in their life in the portal of a day.
' Extraordinary ' MaterialThe film, which is yet to be amended by Macdonald and his team, is trying to be a "one day on Earth".
Mr Macdonald I keep saying that it's like the story of a person, "she says.
"It's just that every time you cut a person's soul that goes with you, but the body remains behind. It almost is telling the story of the world as a person, but a person who keeps mutant form. "
Before the project began, Mr. Macdonald realized that, while it would have been easy getting floods of rich content, tech-savvy youth of the Western world, for the film truly represent the world to achieve enabled less community.
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"Then we sent those cameras to parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America-they were distributed to people in remote parts of the world enough.
"As part of the material is really extraordinary for this reason".
Despite all the clips will probably not have any relationship to each other-except the day of filming-Mr Macdonald has made some attempt to tie them all up as evenly as possible.
"It was a full moon that day.
"So, with the first opening sequence with the Moon in different countries-Malawi, South Africa, Australia.
"So we established, right at the beginning, the idea that this is about the world at the same time. I do not believe that someone has made a film like this. It has not been done before, and of course can happen only because of new technology.
The dark sideThese obstacles technology granted extensive headaches Mr Walker, who has been involved with over 60 different frame rate-the speed at which you shot a clip-making the entire production appear seamless.
He says that the film is about much more than just the typical casual YouTube clip.
Continue reading the main story that Digital Planet is the weekly program broadcast by the BBC World technology ServiceIt is broadcast on Tuesday 1232GMT to and 1632GMT repeated, 2032GMT and Wednesday 0032GMT to "this project has given us the opportunity to look a little deeper."There's a dark side, as well as the history, we have some very disturbing material that came from the Love Parade in Germany, for example, where the fact that there were so many kids with cell phones and Flipcams means that we had seen a YouTuber of a terrible tragedy taking place step-by-step."
More than 500 people were injured and 20 people were killed during a stampede at the dance festival of the city of Duisburg.
"There are some really shocking clips," adds Mr. Macdonald.
"May, for five minutes, 10 minutes, at the head of someone who has a unique view of how things function. Also there are some clips where you think this person needs help, not a camera. "
Yet, despite some strong, emotional scenes, Mr Macdonald believes that life looking one day will be an uplifting experience.
"It is an optimistic film. Is a film about how it is wonderful to be alive ".
