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A "Second a Day" video of a special kind leaves London at war and the viewer lost in thought.
The agency Don't Panic has achieved what years of media coverage have failed to do: it makes the war in remote Syria at least somewhat comprehensible by bringing it to our own (or English) doorstep. The basis for this is a "Second a Day" video of the kind that can be found by the thousands on YouTube. A short moment is filmed every day, the short sequences are cut together into a video at the end, and a longer period of time - usually a year - is thus summarized in a few minutes (example: 2012 per day one second).
The Save the Children commercial begins with the carefree life of an English girl, whose perfect life is shattered in the course of time by the outbreak of war. The convincingly realized film made it to the most popular English media in the last two days and is now - thanks to blogs and social media - conquering the rest of the world. "It's easy to forget that Syria was a middle income country where children enjoyed the benefits of education, healthcare and the other basic rights our children take for granted - not to mention Facebook accounts, video games and youth culture," said Jack Lundie of Save the Children. Message received. (hae)
