This is a very special piece. It’s an original piece written by two members of the VOENA children’s choir. They have both graduated and left the choir, but while they were part of the children’s choir, they both wrote songs separately, and they wrote two songs together.

In this video, you are watching them record the song. In addition, there are some story pieces that help accent the feel of the song.

The scenes of Ella in the forrest and cafe are shot in Mc Cloud, California where the pair started writing the song. The scenes of snow and city with Max were shot when they went with the choir to sing at Carnegie Hall.

Then after they recorded the song, Max did the mixing.

So, the video tells the story of the song, plus a story of two young people learning how to record and produce an original song.

I shot this video outside, then we went inside and shot it again. Both performances were fabulous. I could have used either and created a great video, but I wanted to use both. So, I took parts from each and created a hybrid video of in and out.

I have mentioned the performance these kids give. The little one that starts and ends the video was spot on. I told them all to be happy and full of wonder. I told her to be sad and sightly confused. She absolutely nailed every take. This video is a compromise of telling the story of the song and having a choir singing in place.

This video is also in the "In the Wild" section because part of it was shot outside. I also wanted to include it here in the "Telling a Story" section. The telling of the story of the video is blended with a choir singing a Christmas song, so as not to be too heavy-handed.