Kate Reid Films
The Brief
Kate Reid is a highly decorated cinematographer based in the UK. Kate needed a website designed to display all of her project work within various formats.
The Challenge
I rebuilt the site from an original by Ardent Creative to W3C standards. Maintaining the site was becoming a chore and Kate needed to manage all of her video clips from her end. The previous site involved a very time-consuming method of video embedding. The challenge was to allow her an easy way of uploading video from her end whilst maintaining the quality of video she had been used to. Using the .flv (Flash Video) format meant the user didn’t have to download the entire clip before they could watch it.
The Result
A beautifully simplistic site that allows Kate to upload all of her material to one place. Kate uses a multitude of video editing software to produce her work. Given this we created a content management system to allow her to upload video in .flv format from her computer at home. This was important as it allowed her control over quality from her end. The was produced before YouTube began to offer HD video, an obvious rework would involve a feed direct from a YouTube account.