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.
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.
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.