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.
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.