Brandon Dennis
Video Editor, Copywriter at buuteeq™ Inc.
- Location
- Greater Seattle Area
- Industry
- Online Media
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Brandon Dennis's Overview
- Current
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- Marketing Manager at buuteeq™ Inc.
- Owner at Oxhorn Brand Movies
- Past
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- Freelance Writer, Video Editor, Web Designer at Oxhorn Brand Design
- Creative Writer & Community Manager at YayZee.com
- Creative Director at WeGame.com
- Editor at Amazon.com
- Freelance Writer, Producer, Video Editor at MTV Networks
- Education
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- University of Washington
- Recommendations
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4 people have recommended Brandon
- Connections
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207 connections
- Websites
Brandon Dennis's Summary
I am a video editor and animator, copywriter, creative writer, graphic designer and Wordpress designer. I'm a popular animated movie maker and song writer with over 50 million video views on YouTube. I have worked professionally as a creative writer for video games, web and print publications, as a video editor, movie maker and VFX artist, and as a community manager.
Specialties
Writing (copy, technical, creative, persuasive, research), Video Editing, Community Management, Social Networking, Host & Personality, Social Networking, Viral Marketing
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Brandon Dennis's Skills & Expertise
Brandon Dennis's Experience
Marketing Manager
buuteeq™ Inc.
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry
December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months) Seattle, WA
I'm in charge of buuteeq's marketing efforts.
Copywriting
Graphic Design
Web Design
Video Editing
Social Media
Blogging
Research
Owner
Oxhorn Brand Movies
Online Media industry
August 2004 – Present (7 years 7 months)
Oxhorn Brand Movies is run by Brandon M. Dennis. OBM has produced 30+ award-winning short animated "machinima" movies with over 50 million YouTube views and 100,000 subscribers, including the popular Inventing Swear Words and Oxhorn's Short SHORTS! series. Oxhorn.com has become a thriving online gaming community.
http://www.oxhorn.com/
Freelance Writer, Video Editor, Web Designer
Oxhorn Brand Design
Graphic Design industry
February 2009 – March 2011 (2 years 2 months)
I create Wordpress websites. I do graphic design and create custom themes. I also edit video and have made commercials, trailers, award presentations and short movies for dozens of clients.
Contact me for a full list of the web services I provide.
http://www.oxhornbranddesign.com/
Creative Writer & Community Manager
YayZee.com
Computer Games industry
February 2010 – October 2010 (9 months)
YayZee.com is an independent gaming company that produces social games for the Facebook, Steam and iPhone platforms. I worked as the sole creative writer for our Facebook release, Expedition Egypt. I also worked as the company's community manager.
-Managed, interacted with and built the company's online gaming community.
-Brainstormed with the creative team on game design.
-Created the company's website & all social networks, including Facebook, YouTube & Twitter.
-Wrote all creative copy for our published game, Expedition Egypt.
-Produced a number of promotional videos, including game trailers & tutorials.
-Created additional graphic design for the company's various websites.
Creative Director
WeGame.com
January 2008 – May 2009 (1 year 5 months)
WeGame.com is a video sharing website for video games that produces its own client for screen capture. During my time at WeGame, I worked as a video editor, host, creative writer, & community manager.
-Wrote all creative copy for our movie scripts.
-Produced dozens of popular original machinima movies.
-Collaborated with the company's CEO and marketing team.
-Directed & trained other video editors. Directed a musician & 3D VFX artist.
-Organized and administrated contests with $8,000 in prizes.
-Produced & co-hosted a weekly show.
-Helped build community & establish WeGame culture.
-Worked as the company's public relations liaison to a number of gaming companies & machinima artists.
Editor
Amazon.com
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AMZN; Internet industry
June 2007 – December 2007 (7 months)
Amazon.com is an online retailer. In late 2007, Amazon.com was working closely with film studios to promote high-definition disks. I was hired by Corestaff Services to work for Amazon.com as an XML editor for the Amazon.com DVD team to help promote HD DVD and Blu-ray titles. I was responsible for producing successful campaigns that appeared on the DVD home page and the Amazon.com homepage. I also worked as a writer of film and DVD critiques for the Amazon.com blog
-Mastered XML, Excel and in-house editing tools.
-Collaborated with the DVD team & film studios to produce hand-crafted landing pages for specific titles.
-Created successful marketing campaigns for high-profile film studios.
-Wrote film critiques with a humorous twist for the company blog.
Freelance Writer, Producer, Video Editor
MTV Networks
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VIA; Entertainment industry
November 2006 – May 2007 (7 months)
MTV Networks operates a number of TV channels and Internet brands, including mtvU, which is a broadcast aimed at college-aged young adults. I was hired as a freelance video editor to make two projects for mtvU. The first was a series of four commercials to promote their “Gam0rz Ball” campaign, which I completed on time and which aired on mtvU and MTV2 in the fall of 2006. I was hired again to produce an educational machinima video about college-age depression for their “Half of Us” campaign, which aired on their website in May of 2007.
-Produced animated video game machinima movies suitable for television broadcast.
-Collaborated with the writing staff at mtvU and edited all movie scripts.
-Produced compelling comedies targeting college-aged young adults.
-Met every deadline.
Brandon Dennis's Publications
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Expedition Egypt
- YayZee.com
- April 2010
Authors: Brandon DennisYayZee.com is an independent gaming company that produces social games for the Facebook, Steam and iPhone platforms. I worked as the sole creative writer for our Facebook release, Expedition Egypt. I also work as the company's community manager.
For extracts of creative copy I wrote for the game, check out my writing portfolio here:
http://www.oxhornbranddesign.com/writings/
Brandon Dennis's Education
University of Washington
History, Ancient and Classical History
2004 – 2007
I graduated in 2007 with a BA in history with an emphasis at ancient and classical history. I was a weekly op-ed columnist and reporter for the student campus paper, The Daily, from June of 2006 to March of 2007. I am a member of the Phi Alpha Theta national history honors society. I presented a paper entitled "Herodotus' Charming Masterpiece" at the 2007 Phi Alpha Theta conference in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta, The Daily at the University of Washington
Brandon Dennis's Additional Information
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Web design, film, animation, video editing, creative writing, persuasive writing, graphic design, social media, machinima, video game industry, casual gaming, social gaming
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Phi Alpha Theta
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- Honors and Awards:
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Invited by the Machinima Filmfest to produce a short machinima satire entitled Behind the Scenes for the Machinima Filmfest, 2008.
Nominated for Best Song by the Machinima Festival Europe 07 for my World of Warcraft machinima movie, Hark! Hear the Wails.
Nominated for Best Commercial Machinima by the Machinima Festival Europe 07 committee for my World of Warcraft machinima movie, 4 Commercials for mtvU.
Official selection during the Machinima Festival Europe 07 for my movie, Inventing Swear Words 3.
Received second place in the Action / Adventure category during the Blizzcon 2007 machinima contest for my movie Associate Professor Evil Kills All Gold Farmers.
Nominated for best original song by the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences for The Anti-Elf Anthem, 2006 Machinima Festival, New York, NY.
First and Third place winner in the 2006 Blizzard and Xfire World of Warcraft Machinima Contest for The Anti-Elf Anthem and Inventing Swear Words 2.
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