‘Life in a day’ is a collaborative film by Ridley and Tony Scott. They asked people to submit video footage of their lives and answer some simple questions. All the footage was filmed on the same day: 24th of July, 2010. 4,500 hours of footage was sent to them, from people living in 192 countries.
Due to this vast coverage of so many different cultures, I think the film truly encapsulates what humanity is. Ranging from people having breakfast, to farmers milking sheep, to extraterrestrial activity, to Elvis impersonators, to fears about life, the film captures the mundane to the extraordinary. Simply, I think it shows what it is like to be alive.
In my 1 minute film, I also want to sum up, albeit in a much shorter format than ‘Life in a day’, what it means to be human. I want to show the differences and similarities of people’s lives. I think this film is a good starting point to thinking about how to do this in an interesting way. One person’s experience isn’t enough to demonstrate humanity’s experience as a whole. Using multiple people in my film could be a way to portray the idea of ‘what it means to be human’.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Life in a day. (2011) Film. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. UK: Scott Free Productions.
Hi Alice, this looks interesting judging by the source material you have researched. Ultimately it will be about how you edit the clips together. Will you be asking people “what it means to be human?” as a general question or will you ask them something more specific? The music played a big part in Scott’s film also… Looking forward to it, perhaps you could bring some of your footage to the next tutorial? Best, Steve.