Conjuring Christmas Magic: Cinelab Film & Digital Brings the Season to Life on Film [Video]

Conjuring the spirit of Christmas isn’t easy, and doing it well requires a delicate balance. It’s all too easy to veer into saccharine territory and overegg the pudding, so to speak. One way that filmmakers can conjure a sense of warmth, good memories and a touch of nostalgia is by shooting their projects on film. Shooting on film is often the secret sauce, that little je ne sais quoi, making an ad or a music video feel comforting and magical thanks to film’s fine-grained texture and richness that do all the hard work effortlessly. It provides a welcome and, in the age of AI, continuously-needed human touch that speaks to the spirit of Christmas.

No one knows more about what working with film gives filmmakers than Cinelab Film & Digital, the only full service film laboratory, digital dailies and post production facility in the UK. Unsurprisingly, the lab has worked on a huge number of festive-themed …