No, before you say it, it’s not a story of the origins of the video posting website, where rogue Paypal technicians construct something that will change the world. The forthcoming bomb The Social Network will be enough to prove that internet moguls generally don’t make good stories. Instead, news has hit that Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald are making an experimental movie taking footage from Youtube.

The BBC report that Scott (director of Robin Hood, Alien, etc) and MacDonald (director of State of Play and The Last King of Scotland) are working on a documentary in which amateurs like us will submit the material. On the week of July 24 2010 we are all asked to film footage of our day and have a week to upload it to Youtube. MacDonald, Scott, and their team will pick out the best footage and assemble the material into a feature-length documentary called Life in a Day.

MacDonald is no stranger to documentary, having made his name with the engaging Touching the Void. But this is a very different idea, an essentially wiki-doc that may perhaps bring together different nations, religions, and minds. Last year the documentary All Tomorrow’s Parties pulled fan footage of the boutique festival’s various gigs throughout the years to successfully give an insight into the music festival experience.

Life in a Day will be premiered in 2011′s Sundance film festival and 20 of the selected participants will be brought along for the ride.