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Skeleton Draft
Brand short
Writing, direction, editing, design
Web · Film · Photo
Your business. Beautifully online.One studio for the website, the brand, and the film behind it.
Vive is a digital presence studio. We design and build websites that make businesses look like the obvious choice, then amplify them with commercials, brand film, photography, and content when it's time to get loud.
02 / A point of view
Most websites are wallpaper.Yours should sell.
Your website is your first pitch, and most businesses are losing it without ever hearing the no.
Vive builds digital presence with the instincts of a film studio and the speed of modern tools. One obsessive founder, three decades of craft, and sites shipped since the Dreamweaver days. First we make you look like the obvious choice. Then we give you the firepower to stay that way.
03 / Websites + products
Made to stop the scroll.
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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.
Visit 02Skeleton Draft
SaaS product
A structure-first drafting app for novelists and screenwriters. Product, brand, site, and billing. Designed, built, and shipped.
Visit 03Matthew 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.
Visit 04Lindsey Avenetti
Brand site
A hair and makeup artist brand site. Portfolio-forward, mobile-first, built so a personal brand reads as an established one.
Visit04 / Film + motion
National-TV-caliber ads. Without the production circus.
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05 / Photography
Stills with the same eye behind them.
06 / Ways in
Three ways to start.
Every project starts with a conversation and ends with a fixed quote. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.
01 / Starter
The Launch
From $5,000
Look legitimate.
- Single-page or compact site
- Copy sharpened, story clarified
- Mobile-first, fast, accessible
- Edit your own content, no developer needed
- SEO and analytics baseline
- Live in weeks, not quarters
02 / Growth
The Presence
From $15,000
Look inevitable.
- Full multi-page website
- Brand tune-up: type, color, voice
- Photography and motion assets
- Edit your own content, no developer needed
- Site care plan included
- Built to expand as you do
03 / Flagship
The Flagship
From $30,000
Be unforgettable.
- Everything in The Presence
- A cinematic hero film
- 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 $500 a month, with a performance report every month and a full review every quarter. You will never chase a webmaster again.
07 / Beyond the website
One studio. Every layer.
The website is the anchor. Everything above it (brand, film, photography, campaigns) is built 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, AI, and the strange business of attention.
Read the notes11 / Start something