01 / Starter
The Launch
Look legitimate.
- Single-page or compact site
- Copy sharpened, story clarified
- Mobile-first, fast, accessible
- SEO and analytics baseline
- Live in weeks, not quarters
Start a project Web · Brand · Film
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, a hundred-plus 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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Skeleton Draft
SaaS product
A structure-first drafting app for novelists and screenwriters. Product, brand, site, and billing — designed, built, and shipped.
Visit 02FrameRoom
Web application
A storyboarding room for filmmakers. Offline-first, real-time sync, zero bloat — pre-production that moves at the speed of thought.
Visit 03In progressBlue-Tongue Films
Site redesign
A ground-up redesign concept for the Australian film collective — thirty years of features, shorts, and music videos, reframed.
Visit 04Vive Content
Studio site
The site you're on. Designed, written, and built in-house — because the shoemaker's kids should have the best shoes on the street.
Visit04 / Ways in
Three ways to start.
Every project starts with a conversation and ends with a fixed quote. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.
02 / Growth
The Presence
Look inevitable.
- Full multi-page website
- Brand tune-up: type, color, voice
- Photography and motion assets
- Site care plan included
- Built to expand as you do
03 / Flagship
The Flagship
Be unforgettable.
- Everything in The Presence
- A cinematic hero film
- Campaign and content kit
- Launch strategy and rollout
- One studio, zero handoffs
Site care plans are available on every tier — updates, edits, and a human who answers. You will never chase a webmaster again.
05 / Film + motion
National-TV-caliber ads. Without the production circus.
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One campaign
500K+views
19%click-through rate
06 / 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
Updates, edits, and ongoing creative direction on retainer. A human who answers.
↗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.
- 01 Fluency in your brand
- 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 shipped more than a hundred websites, built 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, AI, and the strange business of attention.
Read the notes10 / Start something