Life in a Day (2011 film) part of the "elite" and to show the intricacy and strangeness of the seemingly mundane." Macdonald began his "Around the world in 80,000 clips" article in "The Guardian" by posing the questions, ""What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket?"" and explaining that "one day last summer, I asked ordinary people around the world to answer those three questions and spend a day filming their lives." The 80,000 individual clips received amounted to 4,500 hours of electronic footage. Macdonald explained that about 75% of the film's content came from people contacted through YouTube, traditional advertising, TV
Life in a Day (2011 film) film for Steve McQueen and there's 21 hours of [film] for that." Walker, whose team edited the whole film over seven weeks, remarked to Adam Sternbergh of "The New York Times" that "The analogy is like being told to make Salisbury Cathedral, and then being introduced to a field full of rubble. You have to start looking for buttresses and things that connect together." Walker indicated that a team of roughly two dozen researchers, chosen both for a cinematic eye and proficiency with languages, watched, logged, tagged, and rated each clip on a scale of one to five stars. Walker