Founder documentaries, event coverage, social content, and brand films. Planned, shot, and edited in-house on Olive Street.
MARKDOWNSTL Studio is the in-house video production team at 1226 Olive St in downtown St. Louis. It produces founder documentaries, event coverage, social media content, brand and product films, pitch videos, podcasts, and photography for startups, local businesses, and organizations.
A short film about the person behind the company: why they started, what they're building, and what it costs them. Interview-led, shot over one to three days in your real workspace.
You get
Good for
Fundraising, recruiting, and your About page
Conferences, demo days, launches, panels, and meetups. We cover the room, the talks, and the people in it, then turn it around while the event is still being talked about.
You get
Good for
Organizers, sponsors, and anyone who spoke
Recurring shoot days that turn into a month of short vertical video. Planned around what you actually want to say, edited for how each platform is watched.
You get
Good for
Founders and teams who post every week
The video on your homepage, the product walkthrough, the explainer your sales team keeps sending. Scripted, shot, and finished to hold up on a big screen.
You get
Good for
Launches and websites
Accelerators and grant programs ask for a founder video. We help you say the important thing in the first ten seconds and look like a team worth backing.
You get
Good for
Accelerator and grant applications, demo day
Multi-camera recording in our studio or on location. You bring the guests; we handle lights, sound, and the edit, and cut every episode into clips.
You get
Good for
Founders building an audience
Headshots, team portraits, workspace, and product. Consistent enough to use together on a website, press page, or pitch deck.
You get
Good for
Press kits, websites, and decks
One shoot, delivered in every shape you need. We frame for vertical on set instead of cropping it out later.
You tell us what the video has to do and who it's for. If video isn't the right tool, we'll say so.
Before anyone picks up a camera you get a short treatment: the story, who's on camera, locations, schedule, and a fixed quote.
On location or in our studio on Olive Street. We bring the crew, cameras, lights, and sound.
You review a first cut and give notes before anything is final. Finished files arrive sized for every place they'll run.
We read every inquiry and reply by email, usually with a time for the first call. Founders in our accelerator get their founder film as part of the program.