Filmhouse is a film production studio striving to be on the cutting edge of the industry. Founded 8 years ago they have established themselves with a custom built studio facility outside Skövde and a Gothenburg office.
We were approached to redefine Filmhouse’s web presence leading to the creation of a new website. The main objectives were to emphasize the company’s strive to be innovative and to show off their great facilities, which are also subleased. This was accomplished by involving Filmhouse in the creative process and designing a website entirely built on a film background, displaying the studio, which immediately lets the visitor know what services the company provide. A number of short films with different scenarios are played at random. This also provides Filmhouse with an easy way of keeping the website fresh and updated by filming new material whenever something exciting happen in the studio. We used the green screen, the dinner table of the film industry, as the colour source for links, button etc.
By clicking the Facilities link in the menu the camera is zoomed out from the main view, lifted up, and you get a walk around the facilities with a glimpse of the daily activity of the studio.
The site also have a Portfolio section – that collects videos from Filmhouse’s Vimeo account – and a blog.
The website is built on a WordPress CMS platform for a straight forward User Interface and back web. Ajax is used to load new content on top of the background video in Flash and Javascript make the site interact with the Flash video, for example pausing and playing the right movie.
