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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.
Slabtown Coffee / Brand + product concept
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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 / Services
One studio. Every layer.
The film, the brand, the stills, and the site it all lives on. Connected creative, from the first idea to the finished work.
Every project starts with a conversation. We agree the brief, deliverables, and target dates before production.
Start a projectWebsites + digital products
Brand sites, portfolios, and digital products, shaped around the story, the content, and what people need to do next.
Work can include page structure, copy, responsive design, development, an editable content system, and an SEO and analytics baseline. Product features and integrations are scoped around the project.
Brand + identity
Type, color, voice, and the connective tissue that makes every touchpoint feel like one company.
Messaging, visual direction, and a brand system for use across the website, imagery, film, and campaign materials. The depth of the identity work is agreed in the brief.
Commercial production
Commercials built from a central idea, with writing, art direction, editing, design, and voice brought together in one studio.
Short video spots, developed commercials, or a signature hero film, with the formats and adaptations agreed for the intended channels. On-site production, talent, music, and licenses are scoped separately when needed.
Brand films + campaign content
Narrative-driven films and connected creative built for the way people actually watch.
Brand shorts, hero video, copy, imagery, and campaign assets that share a creative direction. A broader project can include launch strategy and rollout materials, with scope agreed before production.
Photography + art direction
Stills, product imagery, and art direction. The same taste applied to every frame.
Photography, image libraries, retouching, social graphics, and generative imagery for the agreed touchpoints. Generated work is checked for product accuracy, with real photography when needed; on-site shoots are scoped separately.
Social content + motion
Short videos, animation, and imagery made for social feeds, stories, and reels.
Vertical videos, simple motion graphics, and finished social assets. For ongoing work, requests move through an asynchronous, prioritized queue with one active request, an agreed brief and target date, and two consolidated revision rounds. You publish the work and place ads unless separately agreed.
Site care
Hosting, security, and monitoring, with a human who knows the site.
Ongoing site care can include monthly performance reporting and a quarterly review. The content system keeps your words and images editable; the care scope is agreed for your site.
07 / 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.
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- 02 A brave central idea
- 03 Precision in every frame
- 04 Delivery built for every screen
08 / 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.
09 / Notes from the margins
Ads, cinema, culture, and the strange business of attention.
Read the notes10 / Start something