Life in one day-an amazing world

It is so amazing to see what people around the globe are doing in one day. Life in One Day is an extraordinary documentary compiled by YouTube and Scott Free UK, and assembled by Kevin Macdonald,the Oscar-winning British director of Touching the Void.

Over 81,000 people from different countries shot their lives and submitted to YouTube on July 24, 2010. They had so many interesting stories and fancy shots. However, how to make all these wonderful stuff into only one documentary? The editing is the most important and creative aspect of this film.

The editors chose a timeline to present the day-from dawn to night. And they divided the film into several segments by topics and questions. For example, they collected answers for the questions" What you do love" and "What do you fear".

Besides, they did not just cut the interesting shots, but use more stories to show the precious emotions in life- parents' love for kids, children's love for their parents, love and relationship, etc. These emotional stories combined the separate shots and distinct parts of the film and brought continuous climaxes.

Background music, natural sound and rhythm, were also impressive elements in this documentary. They controlled the tempo of the film and match with the dynamics and statics of the stories.

Last but not least, the cameras in this film were positioned where our eyes do not usually go. There were lots of unusual and fabulous angles.

2012 China Night in Columbia

2010 Summer in Love Homeland NGO Beijing

Working in a non-governmental organization which dedicates to the service of vulnerable groups, I met people with sad stories. They filled my heart with love and hope. They drive me forward for what I have dreamed and what I could do to make this a better world.

Jianling should be over sixty years old, but her intellectual capacity remains at the level of a two-year-old. There is talk that she became like this after a serious illness when she was a little child. For decades, she has behaved as a two- year-old. Nobody knows where she is from, what she has suffered and what is her story because herself  remembers nothing about this world.

Both Da Xiong("first little bear") and Er Xiong("second little bear")have cerebral palsy, which is congenital and incurable. They are abandoned and sent to this welfare home by the local police.

Lya You has never missed a weekend in the welfare house for years. She is a mother of a young girl, and also the "mom" of the two lovely "little bears".  Once Lya holds them in her arms, they will immediately stop crying. She has great talent for taking care of babies and knows so many tricks to play with them. She can also do massage for Er Xiong, who suffers from asthma.

The fourth bear Xiaoxiao Xiong sleeps peacefully with his toy friends staying around. These toys, which were donated by volunteers, could accompany him for the rest of a week when nobody comes to visit. He is only 8-month old and wants to be hugged almost every second when he is awake.

Sister Su is a full-time caregiver of this welfare home. Except for the weekend when a number of NGO volunteers come and take care of the kids, in the rest of the week, it is only Sister Su that looks after the seven kids at different ages.



Sister Su told me when Lan Lan was brought here, she was lying in a very fancy and beautiful pram. They guess she is from a rich family. For the five years of her life, she has never kept a long hair, but she is a still a pretty little girl. I have never seen her speaking. She's always lying there silently and makes very slight noise by knocking her chest when feeling the pain.

In this about 10-square-meters room lives five babies, who come to this world with different pains, but we are trying to show them the same love as others.