A very creative and thought provoking way to share our combined human experience across cultures. To think what a challenge it was to go through all that video footage and decide what to keep and then to piece it together in a way that flowed naturally and touched on the common themes of life for all of us. It is commendable and the final product a truly amazing product,

People were asked to film their lives during 24th July, 2010. Thousands contributed and Kevin Macdonald edited the 4500 hours of footage from 192 countries into about ninety minutes. It basically follows chronologically through the day. There are also sections with a specific theme like hunting for food, and weddings. There are a few prepared questions that people answer in their footage. This is produced by Scott Free Productions and YouTube. As expected, most of this is shaky-camera amateur work. Sometimes, there are beautiful shots. There are plenty of intriguing everyday stuff that are not usually seen in your Hollywood fare. There are some shocking moments. There is a crowd crush situation and some war-torn footages. Overall, there is an unity about the human existence being shown. The idea may be more compelling than the actual execution. This becomes almost archival material for future generations. As for the final girl, it starts off as a tearjerker. It turns a little narcissism which is fitting for Youtube, but then it becomes a nice wrap for the whole movie.

The life as it is. Naked an Row. I always had the notion of discrepancy between countries. What is right for us, for granted, another may be completely different. If I feel good, there is always someone who feels worse than ever and someone even better. Life in a Day is the maximum examples. The change in the camera. The change in vision. All of us in one way or another we have our problems, our way of solving it. And in the movie when all the stakeholders are willing to change. The one day be the day of the move. The day "today was not even bad" or "I have this problem, I will not change, but show you to learn how I am." Recommended and easy to read display, where are all heroes, connect a camera and answer "What is it you fear?I recommend that if only to see the epic fail in living room or bedroom.

I watched the film a life in a day as part of my A2 media course at college. The film focuses on the 24th July 2010 and what average, normal everyday people from all corners of the globe get up to in their life over the course of a 24 hour period. My first impressions of the film were that I had never experienced a documentary like this before. The producers used an unorthodox approach to filming with no narration which would be expected in a documentary. I would not have chosen to watch it but overall am glad I did. I do feel that there were many good features of the film. For example it allowed us to experience how people lived all over the world. We had an insight to cultures and traditions which would be highly unlikely to experience in any other way. We listened to people's opinions on subjects such as love and fears. And learned that even though ever human being is unique where ever we are in the world, be it the slums of Mumbai or the bustling cities in the USA we still share the same norms and values when it comes to loving and caring about things like family. Also it delivers a complete range of life experiences from birth (a baby giraffe is born) to the tragic death of people in the love parade. However it is not flawless. In places I found it to be tedious and dull. It often lingered for too long on clips that were not particularly interesting and on clips that I felt were very interesting were over far too quickly. A perfect example was the little shoe shine boy in a far eastern country I would have liked to see his life more however we didn't. In my opinion overall I enjoyed life in a day even though in some sections of the film it could become repetitive and tedious in places. It was interesting witnessing all the different cultures and how they lived their lives but sometimes it got boring. The best bits of the film I feel were when the people talked about their views on life and it was interesting to see the contrast on opinions in different areas on the planet.