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KEVIN MACDONALD: Hi, my name's Kevin Macdonald.

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And I'm making a film called 'Life in a Day'.

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What I want to do is to make a film, unlike any film, I think, that's ever been made before,

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which is to ask thousands of people, everywhere in the world, on a single day, which is the

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24th of July this year.

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To film some aspect of their day and then post that material onto You Tube so that we

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can use it to make a film that is a record of what it's like to be alive on that one

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day. It'll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in twenty,

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thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, two hundred years, could look at that and say, 'oh my

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God, that's what it was like.' A portrait of the world in a day.

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You just need to go ahead, take your camera, hopefully something reasonably good quality,

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go and film something. It could be something that to you seems really banal. It could be

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your journey to work, watching your baby at bath time, going to the hospital to visit a

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friend, your birthday, going for a walk in the countryside. Or it could be something

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much more meaningful to you, much more emotional. They're knocking down the building next to

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where you live that you've always loved. The death of a friend. It's a little snapshot

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of, of your life. Who knows? The 24th of July might be the day that you're getting married,

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and if it is, I'd love you to film it and send the footage to me.

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But I'd also like you to think about a couple of other things. Three questions I'd like

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you to answer first of all. One is 'what do you fear most in your life today?'

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What makes you frightened? It could be, you know, I'm afraid of snakes, or it could be

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population explosion, climate change, or I'm fearful of the witch that lives next door.

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The second question is 'what do you love?'

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Third one, very simple one, 'what makes you laugh?'

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Politicians, they make me laugh. [Laughs]

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And the last thing I want you to do is, I

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want you to pull out whatever's in your pocket and film it. So I've got in my pocket my iPhone.

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Some keys. I've got a pen, now this pen, actually, was given to me by Donald Sutherland. It's

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a very cheap pen. He gave me a box of 20. And I've got a tissue. Maybe in your pockets

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there's more interesting stuff? I'd love it if you did those things, cause that'd give

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me something that everybody in the world is doing to help me make this film.

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It is gonna be something unusual and it is gonna be something which has, I think, a kind

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of social value to it.

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It's a unique kind of documentary. So prepare for the 24th of July.

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Thank you.