Life sciences is about breakthroughs that change lives, and those stories deserve to be told with clarity and care. At Midnight Brunch, we help biotech, pharma, and healthcare teams turn complex science into video that people actually understand, trust, and remember.
Not just pretty videos (though yes, we do love a good cinematic glow). Videos that work.
Why life sciences video is different
Telling a science story well is harder than it looks:
- The science is complex, and the audience often isn’t scientific.
- Every audience needs something different. Patients, clinicians, investors, partners, recruits, and your own teams each care about different things.
- Accuracy is non-negotiable. Claims, data, and language go through careful review, often including medical, legal, and regulatory sign-off, so the production process has to make room for it.
The goal is to make the message clear without making it less accurate.
Who life sciences video is for
- Patients and caregivers: what a condition or therapy means for their lives.
- Healthcare professionals: how something works and why it matters, told credibly.
- Investors and partners: the vision, the science, and the team behind it.
- Future employees: the culture, the mission, and why it’s worth joining.
- Your own organization: leadership messages, town halls, and launches that keep everyone aligned.
Video that works for life sciences teams
- Explainers and animation: turn mechanisms, pipelines, and data into visuals anyone can follow.
- Real-people stories: patients, scientists, and clinicians in their own words. Nothing builds trust faster.
- Leadership and investor communications: clear, confident messages from the people steering the ship.
- Conference and event content: keynotes, panels, livestreams, and same-day highlights for events like MassBio’s.
- Recruiting and culture videos: show the people behind the breakthroughs.
- High-efficiency content days: for Takeda’s EOHILIA launch, we turned a campus into seven content studios and created 80+ video and photo assets in two days. See the case study.
How we make complex science clear
- Start with the audience. Who’s watching, and what should they think, feel, or do afterward?
- One big idea per video. If a video tries to say everything, it ends up saying nothing.
- Use analogies and visuals. The right comparison or animation can explain in seconds what a slide deck takes ten minutes to cover.
- Put people on screen. Faces and real stories make science feel human.
- Build in time for review. We plan for medical, legal, and regulatory rounds from day one, so approvals don’t derail the schedule.
Recent work: MassBio’s “This Is the Place”
We recently produced videos for MassBio’s “This Is the Place” campaign: a story about Massachusetts as the global hub for drug-development innovation, and the companies changing millions of lives around the world.
Get some popcorn and take a look:
We’ve also partnered with life sciences teams including Takeda, Vertex, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, across launches, events, and brand storytelling. See our case studies.
Common questions
Can you film in labs and clinical settings?
Yes. We shoot on location across Cambridge, Boston, and beyond, including offices, labs, and event venues, and we work around safety and confidentiality requirements.
How do you handle medical and regulatory review?
We build review rounds into the schedule from the start, keep scripts and graphics easy to annotate, and make revisions quickly so approvals stay on track.
Do you work with startups as well as large pharma?
Yes. From early-stage biotech to global pharma, we scope every project to the budget and goal.
Let’s tell your story
If you’re cooking up something important, we’d love to grab a coffee (or a cocktail, we’re flexible) and talk about how video can help. See our Cambridge video production work, or let’s chat.