July 24, 2010 Life in a Day

Life in a Day is a "historic global experiment" produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald, the project will be a collaboration of film footage filmed by people all around the globe. The premise of the project is to show what it is like to be alive on July 24, 2010. The film will be similar to a time capsule, where it will capture a day in the life of people from all around the world.

"On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera" the website states. Macdonald invites people "To make a film unlike any film that's been made before. Which is to ask thousands of people, everywhere in the world, on a single day, which is the 24th of July this year, to film some aspect of their day and then post that material onto you tube so that we can use it to make a film that is a record of what it's like to be alive on that one day. It will be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future... could look at and say, 'oh my God, that's what it was like.' A portrait of the world in a day. "

Those who film a portion of their day-- anything from a monotonous daily commute to the birth of a child-- are asked to answer three questions:

First: What do you fear most in your life today?
Second: What do you love?
Third: What makes you laugh.


The last thing Macdonald asks participants to do is to pull out whatever is in their pocket and film it.

Those whose footage is picked to be a part of the video will receive recognition as a co-director. The film will premiere at the Sundance film festival in January, 2011.

The film is a social experiment that uses social media from every stage from spreading the word
to showing the final video. Social media provides the platform for users to share their videos. If this video had been produced five years ago, each participant would have to mail in their video and people would not be able to spread information about the project as quickly.

The projects official website is: http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday