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Skeleton Draft
Brand short
Writing, direction, editing, design
Vive is a creative studio. Commercials, brand films and photography that make people want what you sell. Websites that make you the obvious choice when they come looking.
Most brand work explains. We build the part that lands before anyone decides whether they agree.
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04 / Image
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05 / Web
SaaS product
A structure-first drafting app for novelists and screenwriters. Product, brand, site, and billing. Designed, built, and shipped.
Client site
The Australian film collective behind three decades of features, shorts, and music videos. Their site for the past fifteen years.
Brand site
A hair and makeup artist brand site. Portfolio-forward, mobile-first, built so a personal brand reads as an established one.
Client site
An established Squarespace site for a real estate photography studio. A portfolio of interiors, architecture, and aerial imagery.
06 / Services
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
07 / The unfair advantage
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.
08 / The Founder
Matt Lane / Creative DirectorA 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 his passion, but advertising is his guilty pleasure. He's the guy who watches the Super Bowl for the commercials and arrives early to the theater for the trailers. Exactly the kind of creative weirdo you want helming your brand's next project.
09 / Notes from the margins
10 / Start something