weLCOME TO DANGERBRAIN
We're a full service Northern California based video production company and we want to tell your story! We specialize in documentaries, commercials, live events and all things creative video. Our approach is to connect with our clients to understand their needs, generate cool ideas, and then create amazing videos together. Super easy. Don’t know exactly what you need yet? Let’s connect and create something dangerous.
dangerous samples
Here’s some fun stuff we’ve worked on. Lots of stuff we can’t show you cause it’s internal,
but we can give you private links to almost every kind of video you could imagine. :)
Also, your video isn’t here because we haven’t made it yet, so lets get dangerous!
dangerbrain sizzle reel
“Nerd Nation”
dangerbrain teaching at Stanford
Man on the Street Event Coverage
“Superfriend” Music Video
Winner: Best Original Marketing Piece Mission College
Fashion / Online Commercial
Documentary Style Storytelling / MSx Family
Broll shoot in Tokyo
Bill and Melinda Gates Original Creative
dangerbrain animated video
Wide Open Walls City Feature
The brainy team
We are a fun, easy-to-work-with team full of big ideas and passion for our work.
Our team is full of flexible problem solvers and we maintain a relaxed, collaborative environment with all of our clients.
Learn a bit more about us below!
Bud Anderson - Creative director
The idea cow. Moo.
Bud has lots of big ideas and he will tell you all about them. After six years as the Creative Video Director at Stanford University, Bud started dangerbrain in 2014 with the slogan “Connect and Create” in his pocket.
He loves building new business, connecting with clients, coming up with new creatives, solving problems and developing extraordinary videos.
Stuff Bud does: Directing, Scripting, Storytelling, Music production, Interviewer, Actor, Voiceovers, Editing and Post Production and hanging with cool clients.
Fun fact: He’s a professional singer and can also do the side moonwalk.
margaret goldsworthy - editor
The Speedstress
Margaret is fast at editing. No, you don’t get it. Really fast.
Margaret comes to the dangerbrain team with a degree in film from UC Santa Cruz. She’s the in-house guru for motion graphics and handles most of the editing that comes through the door. She’s really fast, did we mention that? She loves building graphics from vector images, large monitors and working with 6K video.
Stuff Margaret does: Scripting, Storytelling, Editing and Post Production, Client Relations and running the business when Bud is on vacation.
Fun fact: She is in a zoom writing club and has a cat named Mina.
brainy services
dangerbrain offers full service production— from pre production scripting all the way through delivery of your finalized masterpiece.
Check out some of our services below, and hey— if you don’t see something you want on the list, call us up and we’ll figure it out together.
pre production
Consulting
Story development and creation
Script research and development
Budgeting
Talent and Crew Booking
Location Scouting
Project timeline planning
Travel and Itinerary
and more stuff…
production
Original content capture for:
Storytelling narratives
Interviews
Event Coverage
Streaming
Product demos
Commercials/ Advertisements
and more stuff…
post production
Editing for social media and widescreen formats
Voiceovers
Original song creation
Motion graphics
Animation
Walk through animation
Screen captures
Sound mix and audio correction
Color correction and grading
Captioning
and more stuff…
dangerous toys
To get creative you need to have creative stuff. We’ve put together
an amazing array of gear to help us pull off any vision. Here’s a quick list of a few of our dangerous toys.
6K Cameras
Steadicam
Drones
Gimbals
Dynamic Sliders
360 VR Rigs
Live Streaming Gear
and much, much more…
(ask about the much, much more part)
The Small Business Project
We’re looking for Sacramento based small businesses to
feature over the next 12 months.
How does it work?
You provide: A cool small business.
We provide: All the creative and production for a 1-day video shoot.
You get: A 2-minute creative video about your business!
Your cost: $0. We pay for pre to post production
Why are we doing this? It’s fun to meet new people and make creative stuff!
Who’s eligible? Small businesses, nonprofits and other cool organizations. If you’re interested please fill out form on this page.
We’re going to choose 1 business per month at random so we’ll keep your business in the mix until the end of the year if don’t get chosen right away. When chosen we’ll have a quick zoom call to discuss the project, come up with a creative and get to work.
Get in touch to submit and let’s connect and create something dangerous!