Eagle Films
About the project
Designing a website for a movie company… Action!
Role
Design & Art Direction
Client
Eagle Films
Date
May 2017
Eagle Films website's Loader
Visual Identity
Finding the Art direction matching Eagle Films
The Eagle Films brand has a luxurious and premium feel to it. The art direction needed to fit accordingly and to translate those core values into the visual.
Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt probably talking about my portfolio on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Visual Design
All about movies, starting while loading
The main goal of the website was to highlight the movies that Eagle films produce or distribute. While loading, I chose to show quotes and images from their blockbusters to show visitors that they’ve already seen some of Eagle films’ movies without even knowing it.
Showing some quotes while loading to make a connection with the visitor
Animation of the loader
Dynamic hero showing Eagle Films’ new movie
To avoid having one generic hero at the top of the homepage or choosing a movie that will make the hero outdated pretty fast, I designed a dynamic hero. It is fully customizable and will highlight the latest movie Eagle Films wants to show.
Home page
Slider that shows Eagle Film’s last release
Search overlay
Search animation
Distribution page
Menu to navigate the website
Showing the values, key dates and achievements of Eagle Films
The goal of this about page was also to fully show the values of Eagle films, their achievements and their tremendous number of awards won.
About page showing Eagle film values and history
The importance of the mobile experience
It’s obvious to say that for a marketing website like this, the number of visitors coming from a handheld device is huge. I made sure the mobile experience was as good as the desktop one.
This website is best enjoyed in the dark, I guess...
What did I learn?
Becoming a time zone Ninja and planing accordingly
Our client was based in Lebanon, the developers were in New-York and I was based in San Francisco at the time. We had to make efforts and try to overlap as much as possible to make things easier.
Experiencing the movie industry from the inside
I’ve always been a huge fan of this industry and working on this project made me understand how it truly works in terms of production and distribution. Fun fact, I opened quite a few Hunger Games’ poster photoshop files and it was quite messy.
Designing with Arabic text from right to left
Eagle Films is huge in the middle East and needed a version of the website in Arabic. I had to take that into account when designing the layout. We had to make quite a few changes to make things works well on a language we were not able to speak, let alone read.
Art Direction & Design
Robin Noguier
Development
Awards
Awwwards - Site of The Day
CSSDA - Site of the Day
Let's work together!
Aaaaand acton!! 🎬
Hit me up at noguier.robin@gmail.com and let's make some not scripted design magic!
Robin Noguier