In Life in a Day, Oscar(r) winning director Kevin Macdonald has crafted, in collaboration with YouTube, Ridley Scott and a world wide pool of contributors numbering in the thousands, a portrait of one day (July 24th, 2010 to be precise) in the life of planet Earth.
I spoke with Kevin last week about the influences on the project, the huge scale of the undertaking and the impact of technology on contemporary viewers and filmmaking.
Life in a Day opens in the UK on Friday July 17th.
