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 expectancy Life expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender. The most commonly used measure of life expectancy is at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways. "Cohort" LEB is the mean length of life of an actual birth cohort (all individuals born a given year) and can be computed only for cohorts born many decades ago, so that all their members have died. "Period" LEB is the mean length of life of a