Have you ever stopped to think: how would it be the day for someone else in the world? Life in a Day captures this moment. The film, directed by oscar winning Kevin Macdonald, gathered over 4,500 hours of footage from over 80,000 people for this experimental day of capturing the life of earth in just 24 hours. All in a 90 minute time frame.
The experiment began on July 24, 2010, where the director asked the YouTube community to record what they do that day and submit their videos. The selected filmmakers would get a pass to the Sundance Film Festival to view the finished film, which premiered January 27,2011 and take a look at life on earth for a day.
At the beginning of the movie, I was a bit skeptical. The YouTube community is known for having countless of insignificant videos around the web that somehow, the more stupid your video is, the higher are the chances of you to get a viral video. However, with this movie this was not the case. In turn, the movie showed a complete shocking and inspiring footage on how people go about their normal life in just one day. The movie just played around with your emotions. You would laugh at some points, want to cry on others, and sometimes scared of what was going to happen next. Another amazing element of this movie was the music. The music completely defined the movie and mixed up your emotions with the footage on screen.
However, the last line of the movie is what gave this experiment such an inspiring turn.
After the premier, the director and filmmakers participated on an interactive live QA. Many questions were raised about some of the very graphical elements that occurred in the movie. From the slaughtering of a cow to the death of a couple of people at an event called the “Love Parade”, that created some of the more dramatic parts of this movie. He also mentioned the possibility of making a sequel to find out how these people are doing in their life one year later.
The movie will be released for everybody around the world on July 24, 2011.
Here’s a teaser:
Did you had the chance to see this movie? If so, let me know your thoughts.
