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The Destination at Lakeside

Project overview

The Destination at Lakeside is Essex’s free-entry funfair and entertainment destination at Lakeside Shopping Centre — rides, games and food, open year-round and transformed each December for Christmas.

Media House filmed and edited the venue’s Christmas campaign film — a sixty-second ride through the fair at its festive best, made to put the place on families’ Christmas plans.

Challenges & constraints

A funfair only looks like itself when it’s full — the lights, the rides and the noise of a real evening can’t be staged. That meant filming at night, in December, among real visitors, and catching the moments that sell the atmosphere: the fairground neon, the Christmas stalls, the faces mid-ride. No set-ups, no second takes.

Project solution

We shot on location through the evening — rides in motion, the games stalls, families in Christmas jumpers doing what families do at a funfair — and cut it into a fast, festive sixty seconds built for social feeds and the venue’s website.

The result is the fair as it feels on a December night: loud, bright and impossible for a family scrolling past to ignore.

Let’s address your questions today

Media House is a creative agency for destination brands. We cover branding and identity, web design and development, digital marketing, content creation, social media management, PPC, and live broadcasting. In practice that means we can take a brand from strategy and positioning right through to broadcast-quality video, a high-performing website, and the campaigns that drive enquiries and bookings — all under one roof, working as an extension of your team.

It depends on scope. A focused piece of work like a content shoot or landing page can turn around in a couple of weeks, while a full website rebuild or brand identity typically runs over six to eight weeks. Ongoing partnerships such as social media management or retained content run month to month. We'll give you a clear, realistic timeline during the initial consultation so you know exactly what to expect before we start.

Absolutely. We work with founders, independent operators, and small teams as well as larger destinations and attractions. Our lean model means you get senior-level strategy and high-quality output without big-agency overheads, and we tailor the scope to fit your goals and budget — so the work makes commercial sense whatever your size.

Yes. We can audit, refine, and build on what you already have, whether that's improving design and usability, fixing performance and SEO, adding new functionality, or refreshing content. If a full rebuild is the better long-term option we'll tell you honestly — but we're just as happy improving an existing site where that's the right call.

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