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Litespeed
Flagship commercial
Ideation, copy, editing, design, voice
Make them want it.Cinematic instinct. Ruthless efficiency. Immaculate taste.
Vive is a creative studio. We make the commercials, brand films, and photography that make people want what you sell, then build the site that makes you look like the obvious choice when they come looking.
02 / A point of view
Nobody was ever argued into wanting something.They were shown.
Most brand work explains. Explaining is how you get understood and forgotten in the same breath.
Wanting arrives first and goes looking for its reasons after. That is a craft problem, not a media problem. It lives in how long a shot holds, how a color reads, how little has to be said. We build the part that lands before anyone decides whether they agree.
03 / Film
National-TV-caliber ads. Without the production circus.
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04 / Art
Photography, design, and everything between.
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05 / Web
Made to stop the scroll.
Skeleton Draft
SaaS product
A structure-first drafting app for novelists and screenwriters. Product, brand, site, and billing. Designed, built, and shipped.
Blue-Tongue Films
Client site
The Australian film collective behind three decades of features, shorts, and music videos. Their site for the past fifteen years.
Slabtown Coffee
Brand site
A Portland coffee brand site. Roast discovery, product storytelling, and subscription design. Currently a design preview; orders remain unavailable.
Matthew Lane
Portfolio site
A filmmaker and photographer portfolio. Moving galleries, 250-plus images, built for work that has to be looked at rather than read.
Lindsey Avenetti
Brand site
A hair and makeup artist brand site. Portfolio-forward, mobile-first, built so a personal brand reads as an established one.
Reflex Imaging
Client site
An established Squarespace site for a real estate photography studio. A portfolio of interiors, architecture, and aerial imagery.
06 / Plans
Monthly Content on Tap
Your socials, sorted.
Keep your brand moving.
Short videos, animation, and imagery for social platforms.
- VideosShort and vertical videos shaped for social feeds, stories, and reels.
- MotionShort animations and simple motion graphics for social.
- ImagesSocial graphics, photography, retouching, and generative imagery made for social platforms.
$5,000USD / month
Plus applicable taxes.
Recurring social content, guided by one studio and delivered through an asynchronous, prioritized request queue.
One active request. A prioritized queue. Two consolidated revision rounds within each agreed brief.
Discuss the planA monthly service for a steady flow of social content.
How it works
After confirmed payment, we provide your private Trello request board and clear instructions. You can submit requests as soon as access is ready, with one active request at a time. Before each request, we agree the scope and a target date. Your welcome call is optional.
After any required country review is complete, your first monthly payment is taken at signup. Your paid service period begins when your private request workspace is ready and you can submit requests. A welcome call is optional and does not delay service.
Requests stay focused and manageable, with complexity-informed target dates agreed for each brief. You receive asynchronous updates and reviewable work on business days. Larger projects are scoped separately through the one-off plans.
Two consolidated revision rounds are included for each scoped request. New concepts or brief changes become new requests. We correct our errors as part of delivery.
Scope & delivery
Video: A typical bounded request is a 15–30 second video with one concept, one primary aspect ratio, and one straightforward adaptation. More complex work belongs in a separately scoped project.
Outside this subscription: Websites and landing pages, brand identity builds, major campaigns, and full commercials are not included. For bigger foundational work, explore Launch, Presence, or Gravity below; scope is agreed per tier.
Your part: Supply accurate product information, authorized assets, and consolidated feedback. Generated work is checked for product accuracy, with real photography when needed.
Delivery: Production-ready social assets. You publish the work and place ads unless we separately agree otherwise.
Additional costs: Shoots, travel, talent, props, music, and licenses are quoted separately. No automatic charges.
Billing & cancellations
$5,000 USD/month plus applicable taxes. Your plan is month-to-month. You can cancel renewal yourself, and service continues through the month you have already paid for.
Full refund before onboarding or production begins. After work starts, no change-of-mind or unused-time refunds. If Vive cannot provide the agreed service, an appropriate remedy will be arranged.
For the bigger picture.
Every project starts with a conversation and ends with a fixed quote. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.
01 / Foundation
Launch
From $7,500
Everything in place from day one.
- Focused multi-page website
- Clear messaging and visual direction
- Finished imagery for key touchpoints
- Short video spot
- Editable CMS, SEO and analytics baseline
- Built to launch across channels
02 / Growth
Presence
From $15,000
Move with purpose.
- Everything in Launch
- Larger website and deeper brand direction
- Expanded copy and image library
- More developed video spot
- Three months of site care included
- Built for more channels and campaigns
03 / Stature
Gravity
From $30,000
Be unforgettable.
- Everything in Presence
- Expansive website and brand system
- Signature hero video
- Full campaign and content kit
- Launch strategy and rollout
- One studio, zero handoffs
Every site ships with a content system you control, so your words and images stay yours to change. Care plans cover hosting, security, and monitoring at $300 a month, with a performance report every month and a full review every quarter. You will never chase a webmaster again. Optional on-site photography and film production are scoped separately.
07 / Beyond the frame
One studio. Every layer.
The film is the hook. Everything around it (brand, stills, campaigns, the site it all lives on) is made in the same room, by the same taste, with zero handoffs.
Brand + identity
Type, color, voice, and the connective tissue that makes every touchpoint feel like one company.
Commercial production
Flagship ads with an original idea, a cinematic eye, and enough force to anchor a launch.
Brand films + content
Narrative-driven films and connected creative built for the way people actually watch.
Photography + art direction
Stills, product imagery, and art direction. The same taste applied to every frame.
Site care + subscription
Hosting, security, and monitoring handled quietly, with ongoing creative direction on retainer. A human who answers.
08 / The unfair advantage
The edge is taste.The rest is just execution.
Anyone can make things now. Knowing what is worth making is the rare part.
Vive combines writing, filmmaking, photography, and design inside one concept-to-screen pipeline, so the idea, the brand, and the build all come from the same hands. More possibility, fewer handoffs, and work that still feels deliberately human.
- 01 Fluency in your brand
- 02 A brave central idea
- 03 Precision in every frame
- 04 Delivery built for every screen
09 / The studio
Obsessive innovation. Unruly imagination.
Founder / Creative DirectorMatthew Lane
A storyteller first, with three decades across writing, filmmaking, photography, design, and the web.
Matt founded Vive to make ambitious work without the layers that sand the interesting edges off. He has been building websites since the Dreamweaver days, shipped products of his own, and partners with businesses that value authenticity over algorithms, substance over shortcuts, and ideas strong enough to earn attention.
Art is the passion.Advertising is the guilty pleasure.
10 / Notes from the margins
Ads, cinema, culture, and the strange business of attention.
Read the notes11 / Start something