High Speed Films's website open on a MacBook and an iPhone, standing on a rough dark stone block
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High Speed Films.

A site for the visual engineering studio, where the work carries the page and the interface stays out of its way.

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Client
High Speed Films
Sector
Film production
Services
Marketing sites
Built on
Custom admin
Languages
English

Overview

For High Speed Films, a UK visual engineering studio, we designed and built a film production website for its four lines of work: Phantom high-speed camera hire, CR cinema robots to rent or buy, a tabletop studio and a Glambot for red carpets and media events. We set the home page on the studio's showreel, gave every camera and robot a specification page of its own, and built project pages that play the film beside the kit it was shot on.

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A showreel behind the home page

We built the hero on the studio's showreel: a Korev lager pour, car wheels and the Puma Mirage film behind the headline and the button to talk about a project.

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A spec page per camera and robot

Three Phantom cameras and five CR robots, each on its own page: frame rates, lens mounts and sensor sizes for a camera, reach, payload, weight and power for a robot, and Enquire Now on every one.

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Films linked to their kit

Project pages play the film in a Vimeo player beside a Shot With column, and each camera or robot in it links to its own page.

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Clips that start under the pointer

The work tiles on the cameras, robots and Glambot pages, and on each camera and robot page, play their own clip under the pointer and stop when it leaves.

The producer's path

From a film to the kit behind it.

  1. 01 The portfolio

    Our Work lists 29 projects, each with its title and its client studio: T.J.Maxx with Believe Media, Coral Roulette with Fight Gravity, Puma Mirage with High Stakes Films.

    Our Work on highspeedfilms.co.uk: T.J.Maxx: Behind All The Holiday Magic, Coral Roulette and Puma Mirage ft. Bugsey & Young T, each with its client studio, Believe Media, Fight Gravity and High Stakes Films, and the next row of projects below
  2. 02 The project

    Coral Roulette plays in a Vimeo player, and the Shot With column beside it names the kit: the Phantom Veo 4K and the Cinema Robot CR12.

    The Coral Roulette project page on highspeedfilms.co.uk: the film in a Vimeo player, Client Studio Fight Gravity with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn share buttons, the description, and the Shot With column listing Phantom Veo 4K and Cinema Robot CR12
  3. 03 The camera

    The Phantom Veo 4K page opens on the camera, its 4096 x 2304 (16:9) 31.7mm sensor and Enquire Now. Underneath, the copy explains it: 1000 fps at 4K, with the same sensor as the Flex 4K in a 2.5kg body.

    The Phantom Veo 4K page on highspeedfilms.co.uk: the Phantom Camera label, Phantom Veo 4K, 4096 x 2304 (16:9) 31.7mm and Enquire Now beside the camera on blue, and the white services panel below with the camera's copy
  4. 04 The specifications

    Frame rates from 1000 fps at 4096 x 2160 to 1977 fps at 1920 x 1080, four lens mounts, four sensor sizes, and the data sheet and the manual a click away.

    Specifications of the Phantom Veo 4K on highspeedfilms.co.uk: frame rates, lens mount options and 35mm sensor sizes beside the camera on black, and Resources cards for the data sheet, the VEO manual, Vision Research PCC Software and the spectral response curve
In the build

What the High Speed Films site does.

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  1. highspeedfilms.co.uk
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    A home page that opens on footage

    We set the studio's showreel behind the home page headline: a Korev lager pour, car wheels, the Puma Mirage film. Further down, the four service tiles and the five stat cards answer the pointer in the brand blue.

    Recorded on the live site

  2. Redrawn Cinema Robot CR12+ spec card from highspeedfilms.co.uk/cinema-robot/cinema-robot-cr12-plus: the CR logo, the line on the 7th axis linear track that increases reach by up to 9m, Reach 2013mm Robot Arm, Payload 16kg, Weight 750kg, Power 400v 32amp, motion range and SWRP for axes 1 to 6, Enquire Now and Available to Rent or Own. Beside it, a Cinema Robotics card lists the CR08, CR10, CR12, CR12+ and CR20 by reach and payload, and a glass chip reads Official Partner of CR Cinema Robotics, over a camera robot on a track lit blue
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    Cinema robots to rent or own

    Each CR robot has a page with its reach, payload, weight and power, and the CR12+ adds a 7th axis linear track that increases reach by up to 9m. As an official partner of CR Cinema Robotics, High Speed Films rents and sells the range, from the CR08 to the CR20.

  3. highspeedfilms.co.uk/project/coral-roulette
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    One click from the film to the camera

    Coral Roulette plays in a Vimeo player on its project page, shot with a Revolution probe lens sweeping across a roulette table millimetres off the surface. A click on Phantom Veo 4K in the Shot With column opens the camera's page and its specifications.

    Recorded on the live site

  4. Redrawn Phantom Veo 4K spec sheet from highspeedfilms.co.uk/camera/phantom-veo-4k: the Phantom Camera label, Phantom Veo 4K, 4096 x 2304 (16:9) 31.7mm and Enquire Now over the camera, the frame rates in columns from 4096 x 2160 at 1000 fps to 1920 x 1080 at 1977 fps, the PL, LPL, Panavision PV and Canon EOS EF mounts, a Resources card with the data sheet, VEO Manual, Vision Research PCC Software and Spectral Response Curve, and a glass chip reading 2.5kg, a compact body with the same sensor as the Flex 4K, over the camera page's blue hero photo
    04

    Frame rates, mounts and manuals

    The Veo 4K page lists 1000 fps at 4096 x 2160 and 1977 fps at 1920 x 1080, the PL, LPL, Panavision PV and Canon EOS EF mounts, and links to the data sheet, the manual and the PCC software. The VEO 640s and the Flex 4K have pages built the same way.

  5. highspeedfilms.co.uk/cameras
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    Work tiles that play on hover

    The cameras page shows its work as four tiles, Purple Bricks, KFC Twister Wraps, M&S Christmas Food and the Toyota Warranty Campaign, and each plays its own clip while the pointer rests on it. The robots and Glambot pages, and every camera and robot page, show their work the same way.

    Recorded on the live site

  6. Redrawn How Does This Work? accordion from highspeedfilms.co.uk/glambot-red-carpet, with What is a Glambot robot camera system? open on A high speed robot arm capable of shooting at 1000 frames per second and three more questions closed, stacked with the page's photo of a Glambot rig on the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall and a glass chip reading 1000 frames per second, over the page's red hero
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    A Glambot page for the red carpet

    We built the Glambot page on a red reel and an accordion that opens one of four answers at a time, from what a Glambot is (a high-speed robot arm capable of shooting at 1000 frames per second) to how much space it needs. Further down, tiles of past work include the British Fashion Awards and the Jingle Bell Ball.

The screens

Every screen here is the live site.

8 screens from the High Speed Films build
The brief

High Speed Films is a UK studio for super-slow-motion and motion-control filming. It hires out Phantom high-speed cameras (with or without operators) and cinema robots, sells the robots as an official CR Cinema Robotics partner, runs a tabletop studio with its own engineering team, and brings a Glambot robot camera to red carpets and media events.

Agencies, production companies and brands come to the site for two things: proof in moving pictures, and enough technical detail to choose the right kit.

What we built

We designed and built the site in English. A showreel plays behind the home page, and the work tiles on the camera, robot and Glambot pages play a short clip of each project under the pointer.

The offer is split into four lines: camera hire, robot hire and sales, the visual engineering studio and the Glambot. Every camera and robot has its own page with specifications and an enquiry button, and every portfolio project names the studio it was made with, most with a link to the camera or robot it was shot on.

Stack and tools

What it runs on, and what it measures.

Read from the live site: the build, the tags in its pages, and the services a visitor meets on them.

Marketing and analytics
Google Analytics 4
On the page
VimeoYouTubeWhatsAppInstagramFacebook
Content
Custom admin
Languages
English
Gallery

On desktop and on the phone.

A wall of real desktop pages from highspeedfilms.co.uk in staggered columns on a tilted plane on the brand navy: the home showreel, the Phantom camera and CR robot pages, Glambot Red Carpet, the Visual Engineering Studio, Our Work, Coral Roulette, Partner Studios and About
The Phantom Veo 4K page on desktop beside the same page on a phone, on a light blue tint: the camera on blue, Phantom Veo 4K, 4096 x 2304 (16:9) 31.7mm and Enquire Now, with the white panel below
Five pages of the mobile site in a 3D arc on the site's blue button gradient: Glambot Red Carpet, Phantom Veo 4K, the home page with the Korev can, Coral Roulette with its Vimeo player and Shot With heading, and Our Work
FAQ

About the High Speed Films build.

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Project pages play the film in a Vimeo player, and a Shot With column beside it lists the cameras and robots used, each linking to that kit's own page. Coral Roulette, for example, names the Phantom Veo 4K and the Cinema Robot CR12. Across the portfolio, the Phantom Flex 4K is named on 16 projects, from The Grand Tour to M&S Christmas Food.

Three: the Phantom VEO 640s, the Phantom Veo 4K and the Phantom Flex 4K, for wet or dry hire, with or without technicians and operators. Each has a page with its frame rates, lens mounts and 35mm sensor sizes, links to resources such as the data sheet, and an Enquire Now button. The Veo 4K, for example, shoots 1000 fps at 4K with the same sensor as the Flex 4K in a 2.5kg body.

Yes. High Speed Films is an official partner of CR Cinema Robotics and rents and sells five robots: the CR08, CR10, CR12, CR12+ and CR20. Each has a page with its reach, payload, weight and power, from 1100mm of reach on the CR08 to 3101mm on the CR20. The CR12+ adds a 7th axis linear track that increases reach by up to 9m.

A Glambot is a high-speed robot arm capable of shooting at 1000 frames per second, brought to red carpets and media events. Editors turn the footage into social clips with the client's logos and music in a few minutes, so they are online while the event is still on. We built the page's answers into an accordion, down to the space it needs: 3m x 4m with the smaller CR08, 4m x 5m with the CR12.

Yes. The Visual Engineering Studio page offers the tabletop studio, stocked with high-speed lighting and motion control, and the in-house engineering team, who build a system for anything that needs to be poured, spun or dropped. Table top and car studios can be hired with the CR robots, and the motion control robots, turntables, sliders and pneumatics can be hired for other productions too.

Every project names its client studio, and the Partner Studios page lists 25 studios and brands, among them Partizan, Pulse Films, Untold Studios, Netflix, Sky, Global and WPP. The films run from commercials for KFC, M&S and Toyota to The Grand Tour, The Old Guard and Outlander Season 7.

Vebses, a web studio in Tbilisi. We designed and built the site in English, including the showreel home page, the camera and robot pages, the studio and Glambot pages, and the portfolio that links films to the kit they were shot on. Our name is in the footer of every page.

Yes. A studio, a production company or a rental house would get the same approach: footage first, a page for every camera or product with its real specifications and an enquiry button, and a portfolio that ties each film to the kit behind it. Your kit list and your reel would fill the pages.

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