Coldplay + Christmas was a combination that was bound to happen, but the video unfurls plenty of surprises. Director Mat Whitecross starts the seemingly one-take video as an intimate performance that gets more and more elaborate until the camera pulls back to reveal that the stage is in fact set upon the banks of the Thames as part of a huge bombastic set-up. --> watch "Christmas Lights" plus a making-of
Coldplay "Christmas Lights" (Parlophone/EMI)
Mat Whitecross, director | Hannah Clark, producer | Between The Eyes @ Pulse, production co | OBmanagement, rep | Robbie Ryan, DP | Misty Buckley, production designer | Steel Monkey, construction | Natalie Bayle, production manager | iLoom, balloons | Marc Knapton @ Brewery FX, post fx | Simone Grattarola @ Rushes, telecine | Ben Pugh, executive producer | James Hackett, commissioner
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