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Medical Device Video Production: A Practical Guide

A medical device video has a job most product films do not: it has to show what happens inside a closed object, in a body, at a scale and a speed no camera reaches. That single constraint decides almost everything about how it is made.

This guide covers why a device film is not a product film, what has to be shown, how regulated claims change the production, what sets the budget, and where the same build gets reused afterwards.

What usually has to be shown

Three things, in this order. Where the device sits — in a theatre, on a bench, in a hospital’s plant room. What it does, as a sequence rather than a feature list. And the one thing that distinguishes it from the alternative the buyer is also considering.

For Corsa, which makes water purification systems for hospitals and clinics, that third element was maintenance: we built a digital twin of the Osmotic line that explains every component, so the same application sells to clients and trains the technicians who replace the filters.

The practical decisions that set the budget

Whether you have usable CAD files. How many internal mechanisms have to be modelled rather than shown from outside. How many scenes the piece contains, which matters more than its running time. And the format.

Format is where device projects differ most from pharma ones. A sales film is linear. A training piece is often interactive or in augmented reality, because the alternative is shipping hardware to every session — which is exactly the problem Werfen set out to solve when it turned its training into an immersive, collaborative experience.

PROJECTS

• Corsa
• Bionet

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