Christine Lee’s “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”

Shooting the Project

When Christine Lee and her team wanted to shoot a music video for the Christmas classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” we didn’t know who was more excited—her or us! As big fans of all things “holiday”—especially holiday parties with dearly cherished family and friends—we had an absolute blast creating an indoor winter wonderland for just such an occasion!

After over 15 hours of decorating, we had the Yuletide ambiance perfectly set for a Santa sleepover party for Christine and her friends, replete with gingerbread houses and Christmas cookies, buttery popcorn and steaming hot cocoa, shiny gift boxes and colored lights, a stocking-laden fireplace and a bedazzled Christmas tree, and of course plenty of adolescent silliness and shimmering tinsel for days!—all of the holiday fun that brings up all the warm fuzzies!

Christine and her friends did an amazing job bringing the energy at what ended up really feeling like a real life sleepover! (Fun fact: At the end of the night when the girls were “pretend” sleeping, a few actually fell asleep for real! It was a long day of fun!) And you’d never know that it was actually quite warm outside on the day of shooting. We shipped in fake snow to cover around the windows to make sure it gave us the winter wonderland feel we were going for!

Our goal

Our vision for this video was not only to emulate classic Americana Christmas merriment for all viewers of the piece but also to share some festive ideas for getting back into the holiday spirit and to highlight Christine’s genuinely sweet and celebratory personality! Truly she was a gift to work with, and we look forward to doing more  with Christine the future! And any of you out there who are wanting to try out something similar, our team at Spirinity is ready to bring your festive visions to visual life!