Life in a Day

Filmmakers Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are participating in an experiment to assemble a feature film using the contributions of YouTube users. On 24 July 2010, 80,000 videos from 197 countries were submitted to YouTube for potential inclusion in the project.

The Life in a Day project is meant to capture the zeitgeist of the world today by asking global contributors to answer four questions:

- what do you fear?
- what do you love?
- what makes you laugh?
- what’s in your pocket?

The final film will be shown at Sundance and on YouTube in January 2011. In the meantime the Life in a Day channel can give you a taste. If you imagine watching these clips 10 years or 100 years from now—when we’ll undoubtedly be lost in space—it makes for endearing stuff, watching humans chronicling the little details of life on Earth.