Joe Walker on Editing YouTube Documentary Life in a Day
Scott Marks: You’re in my home town, Chicago.
Joe Walker: I’m rather enjoying it. We’ve got storms here. When we stepped out of the cab it was 105 or something ridiculous, and people are dying of heat exposure. Now we’re running from the rain.
Why do you think I’m in San Diego?
(Laughing): You made a wise move.
Happy anniversary, Joe. It will be one year tomorrow since the film, or should I say films were created.
We’re going to petition for a national holiday and change the calendars.
I try my best not to read anything about a movie before going in. After hearing the premise, I assumed it to be a bunch of talking-head YouTube videos strung together and initially thought an editor’s job on a picture of this kind would be slightly more challenging than that of a San Diego weather-person. That was before I watched the film. Now that I’ve had a chance to see it, I must ask if the name Dziga Vertov means anything to you.
Absolutely. Yes. You’ve spotted an origin. Our director Kevin Macdonald has talked about this. There is no such thing as an original film. This is a first, but everything has its fore-bearers and one of them was this amazing film that I think is called Anna: 6- 18 (1929).
Even better! That’s a third influence. (Laughing) You know, I don’t know that film personally, but from what everyone has told me, I’ve been greatly influenced by it. We were told that we we’ve been influenced by art installations that weren’t even on our side of the world. The idea of this all-seeing eye and glimpsing the world all in one day was a very exciting prospect. It was the sort of thing that couldn’t have been done genuinely before the arrival of YouTube. This project started as an experiment between YouTube and Ridley Scott’s company, Scott Free. They sat around and bashed out a way to celebrate YouTube’s fifth anniversary, I think it was. It’s so hard to believe that they’ve only been around for such a short time. We fixed the date as the 24th of July because it was the first date we could do that was after the World Cup finished.
How was the word spread? I must be living in a fallout shelter, because Life in a Day was the first I heard of it.
It was YouTube basically, but they did massive amounts of press.I remember a day when Kevin was interviewed breakfast twenty-six. We do not worry unless a space that we would not have enough material to make a good film, but we were absolutely inundated. We had 4500 hours of footage that came from 192 different countries. Overall, there were about 85,000 clips from more than 30,000 people worldwide.
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From the Archives: Homemade Bubble Recipe — Simple Kids
Ome people say that kids will only be inventive if they are allowed to experience boredom. Although it was soap maker Andrew Pears who popularized bubble blowing in the late 1800’s, I have no doubt that it was probably a child who came up with the idea of making homemade bubbles one hot summer day in July.
Perfect Boredom BusterWith summer coming as fast as it can, so is the need to have a few activities for your kids to do when they have some down time. Making bubbles is one of the more simple and fanciful ways to spend a warm sunny afternoon. They work well on a grassy lawn, outside on the steps, under the shade of a tree, and even in the kitchen.
When it comes to kids, bubbles have everything going for them; they fascinate, they float, have rainbow colors, and require some skill to blow a good bubble. They can be treated as a scientific experiment or as a past time. Best of all, they are inexpensive to make.
Bubbles are, indeed, the perfect boredom buster for a summer day.
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Let the kids experiment. Making and experimenting with the homemade bubble solution is fun for young scientists, but it’s also appealing to the inventors too.
Try collecting an array of bubble blowers made from everyday household items such as a funnel, a straw, or rubber band. Don’t forget to save and reuse bubble wands too.
You can even make bubble art using a paper cone. Add tints of food coloring to the solution and blow the bubbles directly on a sheet of paper onto paper to make bubble art.
Homemade Bubble SolutionIt is very simple to make your own bubble solution.
3. Combine ingredients in a bowl, or metal baking pan and stir well.
To begin, dip the open end of the funnel, paper cone, or drinking straw into the soapy solution and blow lightly through the non-soapy end. The corn syrup helps to create a sturdy BIG bubble.
Once the kids have mastered the art of bubble blowing have a contest to see who can make the largest bubble.
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