WEBVTT 00:00:00.459 --> 00:00:02.750 KEVIN MACDONALD: Hi, my name's Kevin Macdonald. 00:00:02.750 --> 00:00:06.520 And I'm making a film called 'Life in a Day'. 00:00:06.520 --> 00:00:10.650 What I want to do is to make a film, unlike any film, I think, that's ever been made before, 00:00:10.650 --> 00:00:16.219 which is to ask thousands of people, everywhere in the world, on a single day, which is the 00:00:16.219 --> 00:00:17.779 24th of July this year. 00:00:17.779 --> 00:00:23.939 To film some aspect of their day and then post that material onto You Tube so that we 00:00:23.939 --> 00:00:28.079 can use it to make a film that is a record of what it's like to be alive on that one 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:32.279 day. It'll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in twenty, 00:00:32.279 --> 00:00:36.780 thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, two hundred years, could look at that and say, 'oh my 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:39.539 God, that's what it was like.' A portrait of the world in a day. 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:44.820 You just need to go ahead, take your camera, hopefully something reasonably good quality, 00:00:44.820 --> 00:00:49.329 go and film something. It could be something that to you seems really banal. It could be 00:00:49.329 --> 00:00:53.780 your journey to work, watching your baby at bath time, going to the hospital to visit a 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:57.170 friend, your birthday, going for a walk in the countryside. Or it could be something 00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:01.859 much more meaningful to you, much more emotional. They're knocking down the building next to 00:01:01.859 --> 00:01:05.630 where you live that you've always loved. The death of a friend. It's a little snapshot 00:01:05.630 --> 00:01:08.710 of, of your life. Who knows? The 24th of July might be the day that you're getting married, 00:01:08.710 --> 00:01:11.920 and if it is, I'd love you to film it and send the footage to me. 00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:17.820 But I'd also like you to think about a couple of other things. Three questions I'd like 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:22.200 you to answer first of all. One is 'what do you fear most in your life today?' 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:25.549 What makes you frightened? It could be, you know, I'm afraid of snakes, or it could be 00:01:25.549 --> 00:01:29.829 population explosion, climate change, or I'm fearful of the witch that lives next door. 00:01:29.829 --> 00:01:32.000 The second question is 'what do you love?' 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:35.000 Third one, very simple one, 'what makes you laugh?' 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:36.880 Politicians, they make me laugh. [Laughs] 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:39.140 And the last thing I want you to do is, I 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:44.200 want you to pull out whatever's in your pocket and film it. So I've got in my pocket my iPhone. 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.820 Some keys. I've got a pen, now this pen, actually, was given to me by Donald Sutherland. It's 00:01:48.820 --> 00:01:54.039 a very cheap pen. He gave me a box of 20. And I've got a tissue. Maybe in your pockets 00:01:54.039 --> 00:01:57.179 there's more interesting stuff? I'd love it if you did those things, cause that'd give 00:01:57.179 --> 00:02:01.020 me something that everybody in the world is doing to help me make this film. 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:06.299 It is gonna be something unusual and it is gonna be something which has, I think, a kind 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:07.579 of social value to it. 00:02:07.579 --> 00:02:11.870 It's a unique kind of documentary. So prepare for the 24th of July. 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.400 Thank you.