British director Kevin MacDonald poses during a photocall for the film ‘Whitney’ at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 17, 2018. — AFP pic

LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 — When Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald created documentary Life in a Day a decade ago, their goal was to construct a video portrait of a typical 24 hours on Earth, as filmed by tens of thousands of amateurs around the world.