Case Study
Key West Boats
Long Term Partnership
Our partnership with Key West Boats began in 2020 with an ambitious project—capturing their entire 14-boat fleet over five action-packed days of filming and photography. One standout moment? A breathtaking aerial shot of all fourteen boats cutting through the Ashley River in perfect formation—one of our all-time favorite drone captures.
Since then, our collaboration has only grown. Year after year, we continue to produce high-quality video and photography, keeping their content fresh for both new and existing models. Our work is featured prominently on the Key West Boats website, in dealerships across the country, and throughout their social media platforms—helping them make a lasting impression in a competitive market.
Turn-Key Production
Vive is a turn-key solution for Key West Boat’s video needs. For these lifestyle shoots, our team handles casting all of the talent, planning locations, shotlists,scheduling, and all the other fine details that go into making a successful shoot simple and stress free for the client.
We’ve created a lifestyle video for every boat in the Key West fleet. These videos live on their website and in dealerships across the world.
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"Matt, Brittani, and the rest of the crew at Vive Media have been a pleasure to work with for the last few years. Always professional, providing amazing content which has led to a significant improvement in our impact via the website and print media. They go the extra mile to get the shots, and it shows."
Technical Product Walkthroughs
We create in depth video walkthroughs and detailed photography of every boat so potential buyers can learn everything they need to know about each model before even visiting a dealership. These videos also allow Key West Boats to control the narrative on how the features of their boats are introduced to customers and dealerships. Our team handles all filming, photography, voiceover casting/recording, and script supervising.
Photography
We capture video and photography in tandem on every shoot, maximizing the content created for Key West Boats while ensuring seamless visual continuity across their campaigns. From high-energy action shots on the water to detailed stills that highlight craftsmanship, our photography helps their boats jump off the page.
Behind the scenes
Check out Behind-The-Scenes from our video shoot for Key West Boats. Featuring lots of boat chasing at 60mph with our Inspire 2 and X7. For this video production, our team put together a four-day shoot to film the entire lineup of boats that they manufacture and we handled all the logistics, creative, talent, and editing.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In-depth video walkthroughs and detailed photography allow manufacturers to perfectly control the product narrative. By cleanly outlining specifications and design features, we educate buyers before they ever step foot into a showroom or franchise dealership.
We handle the entire operational pipeline to ensure a simple, stress-free shoot for the client. This covers on-camera talent casting, planning optimal open-water locations, building detailed shot-lists, executing voiceover tracking, and coordinating tight multi-day production schedules.
Capturing digital assets simultaneously ensures absolute visual continuity across print, digital, and catalog media. This approach maximizes content generation within a single production footprint, saving valuable time and resource management.