Kevin Macdonald on Life In A Day

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

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

What I want to do is to make a film, unlike any film, I think, that's ever 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'll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in twenty,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The second question is 'what do you love?'

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

Politicians, they make me laugh. [Laughs]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

of social value to it.

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

Thank you.