Kevin Macdonald on Life In A Day

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald discusses his latest project, Life In A Day: a historic global experiment to create a user-generated documentary film shot in a single day.
On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin.

For more information, visit youtube.com/lifeinaday.

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[MorganScorpion]

Fundamentally flawed. Life on earth as experienced by people rich enough to own a movie camera. Not exactly representational.

[SnipetoSurvive]

who the fuck would dislike this, i just dont get what there is to not like. someone starts watching is live "Oh fuck this british asshole" *click*

[colecionar]

It is still flawed...only people who want to share their own life with the fucking humanity. Unrepresentative.

[gaover]

Just saw the film. Most of it was inspirational. I was disappointed with the personal injection of what the director thought was important to him. The butchering of a cow was totally un·nec·es·sar·y. If it included butchering of a lamb or a chicken or hunting endangerd species and there was an actual reason for putting it in I might not have objected but to use this one scene with no context it was too personal a comment and disappointing in what other wise was insperational.

[XiaoUrsula]

@MorganScorpion

they sent cameras to people around the world.

pretty amazing thing they're doing :)

[chengli23]

@MorganScorpion According to Wiki: Cameras were sent out to the developing world, Macdonald pointed out "It was important to represent the whole world"

[Unityisthekeyfolks]

@MorganScorpion still a great piece of work that opens doors to new ideas and connecting people. Don't be a hater, it won't get you very far in this life

[pturner1010]

@MorganScorpion didnt they use 25% footage from people they sent cameras to (people that don't have access to digital technology)?

[MorganScorpion]

Thankyo Zegetusa. I'm surprised to be getting responses to my statement so long after making it. Yours has been helpful.

[zegetusa]

@MorganScorpion Not true, the media divide concept does not apply here. The producers made it possible for people from remote places to have readily access to cameras and made it possible for the material filmed to be uploaded on YouTube. I believe that the flaw could emerge in this case from the selection criteria or the narrative structure, even this being open to debate.

[johnnyzing]

Lighten up. Kevin takes snippets of life and makes it a whole thought....an entity. He does the lion's share of the work. Each person shares a few minutes.  He is the chooser....and that takes time, thought, patience, discretion, and vision. He is making a film indeed. Thank You Kevin. TheChimeMan John-Hans Melcher