I’m the Angel
on the Christmas Tree

On December 28, 2009 Tom and I did all the shooting and recording for our 2010 Christmas video. Thios is a project that has been in pre-production for a few years. We shot the background (the tree) In January 2009, wrote the script just last week, after I finally decided what the musical theme was going to be (O Tannenbaum). We created the music and started to build the suspension rigging back in 2008 but production was thwarted when my back went out!

This year I am in “ornament” condition. I spent all of the last 12 months preparing for this shoot physically and although it turned out that I couldn’t do very much in the harness we used, It was quite the workout. And I really had the best of times.

Getting the padding for the harness just right took some doing. After all I was going to be hanging for 30-60 minutes. We didn’t use a Peter Pan rig since that takes at least two operators and Tom wanted to try to see what he could do alone. Once I was in costume, I could no longer help. Tom was a one-man movie making band!

I love the life I live and live the life I love!

And after hours of work: harness, padding, make-up, wig, costume, accessories, viola:

I think I really like being an angel!

photos © Thomas Hudson Reeve for Greetums.com