Large Short Films
Original short films by India’s finest directors, streamed on demand. Search by title, director or actor, keep a watchlist, and submit your own film to a festival from the same platform.
Overview
Large Short Films is a video streaming platform built around one thing: original short films, by directors worth watching. It carries work from names like Shefali Shah and Tisca Chopra, filed by genre and searchable by title, director or actor.
Large Short Films partnered with Sphinx Solutions to build a platform where people could watch short films and upload their own.
We built it from scratch, which meant a lot of decisions were ours to get right. The point was to hold the attention of a particular audience, film enthusiasts, and to get more of them taking part in short film festivals.
Our team went through the specifications and objectives, drafted the wireframe, and kept Large Short Films in the loop throughout so the finished thing matched what had been proposed. We work in an agile process, and this is the kind of project where that matters.
With 16 years of building web applications for enterprises and institutions behind us, the result was a platform its audience actually engages with.
Large Short Films wanted a web application with a genuinely responsive interface and the flexibility to grow later, built exclusively for original and well-known short films.
A platform aimed squarely at film enthusiasts, which is a harder brief than a general video site: the audience knows what good looks like.
A catalogue of films means a great deal of data behind the scenes: listings, metadata, credits and the video content itself. That needed a backend strong enough to hold it and quick enough to serve it.
It also had to be flexible. The platform launched with what it had and needed room to expand rather than be rebuilt once it worked.
We took precise ideation and detailed information before building, then appended every specification the client asked for and deployed inside the agreed timeframe.
Sphinx Solutions built a one-of-its-kind short films platform, secure and scalable, that put genuine short films in front of people and promoted the festivals around them. Four things carry it:
A secure platform with a straightforward interface made Large Short Films a popular choice among film buffs, and gave the client the reach and engagement they were after.
“Sphinx Solutions provided us with a user-friendly, highly secure and scalable web application. It has helped us establish ourselves in the market and build a strong customer base.”
Tech stack
What people usually ask about Large Short Films and about building something like it.
Define what the catalogue is and who it is for, research the audience, choose the stack and the hosting, build the front end and the ingest and delivery behind it, test how it performs under real playback load, then launch.
Typically $40,000 to $150,000, and it moves with complexity, the feature set, where the development team is and what they charge. Delivery and storage costs then run for as long as the platform does, which is the part people forget to budget.
A catalogue that can be browsed and searched properly, playback that holds up, watchlists so people come back, an admin panel that can ingest video from more than one source, and sensible metadata: genre, director, cast and runtime.
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