Film Radar

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Project: Film Radar

www.filmradar.com
Launched on March 1, 2008
Entertainment, News Media, We Blog

Blog:Read about this project on the blog

Film Radar is an L.A.-based film site owned and operated by Karie Bible. Its stated goal is to “bring the virtually endless world of specialty film-going in Los Angeles right to your fingertips.” And it does, with independent film listings, reviews, and colorful histories. Karie, one of our earliest clients, recently came back to Hop Studios with big ideas on how to expand and improve her site.

We did a complete site redesign, adding custom buttons, terrific icons, and clear layouts. Karie was already running our CMS of choice, ExpressionEngine, but we added forums, separate sections for articles, reviews and interviews, and three blogs with an eye for additional blogs as the site expands. A great deal of Film Radar’s content lives in an impressive calendar of hundreds of movie events, and our redesign polished the calendar’s look and functionality.

Users who are logged in will see the calendar’s events sprinkled throughout the site, inviting them to find the latest screenings—and they will get email reminders of the films they’ve picked to see. A mailing list, user database and an OpenAds-based ad serving system rounded out the development needs of the site. We topped it off with an automatically updating homepage, interactive drop down menus and a custom store.

Film Radar: Testimonial

"Hop Studios is very professional and they have done an amazing job on FilmRadar.com! I am very impressed by their work and would recommend them to anyone."

- Karie Bible
Founder, Film Radar