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LionBio · Nov 2026 · 1:48 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 1:48
- Scenes
- 53 · 2.0 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:54
- Features shown
- 2
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 01:48:14
LionBio’s 1:48 launch film runs 53 scenes, about 2.0 s each. The product shows up at 0:54 and 2 features are revealed, with social proof. There is no explicit call to action; a voiceover carries the film. The video is built as a founder documentary: hard cuts between a plaza walk, lab interviews, a news montage, and clean 3D molecule animation, with large white type synced word by word to the voiceover. Its signature moves are the kinetic full-screen words, the yellow-highlighted GLP-1 headlines, and the recurring particle halo that closes the logo.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 3 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 37 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 1 graphic passage — draw or supply · 3 3D passages — build or supply
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· 53 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:08
A man in a beige jacket walks toward the camera across a sunlit plaza, a large stone hall behind him. Huge white words pop in over him in sync with the voiceover: Nasal spray, GLP-1, Because of my family, Prediabetic, Diabetic, Alzheimer's, Affects two grandparents. Subtitles sit at the bottom.
On-screen text: “We're building a nasal spray GLP-1.”, “Nasal”, “spray”, “GLP-1”, “The reason is kind of simple.”, “Because”, “It's because of my family.”, “of my family”, “I'm pre-diabetic,”, “Prediabetic”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
02 · Problem · 0:08–0:09
A locked-off close-up of a New York Times article, the term GLP-1 highlighted in yellow, cuts to a Wall Street Journal article with the same highlight. A translucent caption at the bottom reads that it affects two of my grandparents.
On-screen text: “that affects”, “two of my grandparents.”
Camera: Static
03 · Problem · 0:09–0:09
A white news article page shows a business headline with the term GLP-1 highlighted in yellow, then quickly cuts to a second article, a health guide on long-term use, where GLP-1 carries the same yellow highlight.
Camera: Static
04 · Problem · 0:09–0:10
A web article layout cuts to a second article layout, both with a yellow highlight on 'GLP-1' in the headline. The second layout slowly pushes in. A gray caption pill stays fixed at the bottom center throughout.
On-screen text: “GLP-1s change what's possible”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
A news article screen shows the headline 'The GLP-1 Boom Is Reshaping the Food Industry' with 'GLP-1' highlighted in yellow, then cuts to a second article, 'Oral GLP-1 Pill Clears Late-Stage Trial', also highlighted. A gray caption box at the bottom reads 'GLP-1s change what's possible'.
On-screen text: “GLP-1s change what's possible”
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:11–0:11
Two news articles about GLP-1 drugs crossfade, each with the term highlighted in yellow, while a large black serif headline overlays the page and a gray caption box at the bottom scales in with the voiceover words.
On-screen text: “Patients Say GLP-1 Drugs Within a Year, Analysis Finds”, “GLP-1s change what's possible”, “Senate to Pass Law for Overturning”, “for people”, “like my dad and over”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:11–0:12
A white article page with a large serif headline crossfades into a medium shot of a man in a white shirt speaking in a teal lab. A gray caption box holds at the bottom through the dissolve.
On-screen text: “for people like my dad and over”
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:12–0:14
A man in a white shirt talks to camera in a lab with green cabinets and pinned papers behind him. A large white 15M and a two-line stat caption sit on the right, while a subtitle bar at the bottom updates as he speaks.
On-screen text: “15M”, “Americans take GLP-1s monthly.”, “15 million Americans take it”, “monthly. It out earns OpenAI and Anthropic combine”
Camera: Static
09 · Problem · 0:14–0:18
A man in a white shirt sits in a lab, gesturing as he speaks. On the right, a translucent panel fades in showing the line “Americans take GLP-1s monthly,” then resolves into a line chart titled “The Rise of GLP-1s” comparing GLP-1s and OpenAI plus Anthropic revenue.
On-screen text: “Americans take GLP-1s monthly.”, “monthly. It out earns OpenAI and Anthropic combined.”, “The Rise of GLP-1s”, “$100B”, “$75B”, “$50B”, “$25B”, “$0B”, “$92B”, “GLP-1s $70B OPENAI + ANTHROPIC 2024 2025 2026 APPROX. GLOBAL ANNUAL REVENUE - 2026 ESTIMATED”
Camera: Static
10 · Problem · 0:18–0:19
A researcher in a white lab coat stands before a monitor showing a blue field of cells in scientific software. The shot is framed over the shoulder, the figure blurred in the foreground, as the person shifts to face the screen. A caption holds at the bottom.
On-screen text: “But innovating on the molecule”
Camera: Pan
11 · Problem · 0:19–0:22
Over-the-shoulder view of a monitor showing a fluorescence microscopy image of blue and green cells inside scientific software. The cell image slowly zooms in to fill the frame while white caption phrases swap in at the bottom. A blurred head and shoulder sit at the right edge.
On-screen text: “and the GLP-1 agonist”, “is not the issue”, “anymore.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Static
12 · Problem · 0:22–0:23
A man in a white shirt speaks in front of green lab cabinets. Large white text “Delivery” appears at the top, then “is the issue” fills the bottom, synced to his line. Small subtitles sit at the base.
On-screen text: “is not the issue”, “anymore.”, “Delivery”, “Delivery is the issue.”, “is the issue”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
13 · Problem · 0:23–0:28
A man in a white shirt sits on a lab bench in a cluttered laboratory, speaking and gesturing toward camera. Green cabinets, a gas cylinder and shelves of boxes fill the static background. A lower-third nameplate and centered subtitles appear at the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “Delivery is the issue.”, “Robin Guo”, “CEO & CO-FOUNDER”, “Today that means a needle,”, “a fridge,”, “patients,”, “patients, it means nausea.”
Camera: Static
14 · Problem · 0:28–0:30
A man in a white lab coat and glasses speaks in a laboratory with teal cabinets behind him. A bracketed lower-third names him Prof. Kam Leong, inventor and co-founder, as white subtitles caption his line about the brain being hard to reach.
On-screen text: “Prof. Kam Leong”, “INVENTOR & CO-FOUNDER”, “patients, it means nausea.”, “The brain is one of the”, “hardest organs in the body to reach.”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:30–0:36
A translucent 3D head in profile contains a dotted teal brain. White ball-and-stick molecules drift in and out of focus around it. A boxed callout points to the brain, and the camera slowly slides left, pushing the head toward the left edge.
On-screen text: “hardest organs in the body to reach.”, “THE BRAIN”, “PROTECTED BY THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER”, “* VOICE OF KAM LEONG”, “SCIENTIFIC CO-FOUNDER”, “brain barrier keeps out high”, “molecular weight drugs such as peptides.”, “Our patented”
Techniques: Parallax
Camera: Push in
16 · Feature reveal · 0:36–0:40
A white ball-and-stick molecule floats centered on a dark teal gradient while a ring of fine white particles swirls around it, thickening into a dense cloud. White captions cycle at bottom center and a static credit line holds in the top right.
On-screen text: “* VOICE OF KAM LEONG”, “SCIENTIFIC CO-FOUNDER”, “Our patented”, “nanoparticles can encapsulate”, “and protect the peptide,”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
17 · Feature reveal · 0:40–0:41
A glowing ball-and-stick molecule floats inside a swirling ring of white particles on a dark blue field. The molecule drifts left as a white line-drawn head profile appears on the right. Subtitles caption the voiceover at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “* VOICE OF KAM LEONG”, “SCIENTIFIC CO-FOUNDER”, “and protect the peptide,”, “allowing delivery through the olfactory bulb, into the brain.”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out
18 · Feature reveal · 0:41–0:47
A translucent 3D head in right profile on a dark blue gradient. A particle sphere holding a molecule drifts toward the nose, then a pale nasal spray nozzle appears and emits a mist of dots traveling up into a dotted brain. Thin callout lines label the spray.
On-screen text: “* VOICE OF KAM LEONG”, “SCIENTIFIC CO-FOUNDER”, “allowing delivery”, “through the olfactory bulb into the brain.”, “NASAL SPRAY”, “NANOPARTICLES TRAVEL THROUGH THE NOSE”, “We have shown in preclinical studies”, “that delivery by this method,”
Techniques: Particles, 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
19 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:53
A researcher in a white lab coat sits on a stool in a cluttered lab, speaking to camera. On the right, large white lines read More weight loss. and Less vomiting. with dotted rules and a small footnote, while captions track his speech at the bottom.
On-screen text: “that delivery by this method,”, “resulted in higher weight”, “More weight loss.”, “Less vomiting.”, “*COMPARISON IN OUR ACADEMIC ANIMAL STUDIES”, “compared to the pill and with less vomiting.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
20 · Feature reveal · 0:53–0:54
Two men sit in a lab office, the one in a white shirt pointing and speaking while the other in a dark blazer gestures with an open hand. Shelves of bottles and a windowed wall fill the background.
On-screen text: “compared to the pill and with less vomiting.”
Camera: Static
21 · Product intro · 0:54–0:55
Two men sit in a lab lined with shelves of glass bottles, the one in a dark suit raising an open hand while the one in a white shirt points. White captions read LionBio, then is developing, at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “LionBio”, “is developing”
Camera: Push in
22 · Product intro · 0:55–0:56
Over-the-shoulder shot of a hand gesturing toward a monitor filled with brain images and bar charts, a laptop blurred in the foreground. The hand shifts from a pointing gesture to an open palm while white subtitles caption the voiceover along the bottom.
On-screen text: “is developing”, “this nasal spray as”, “a platform technology”
Camera: Static
23 · Product intro · 0:56–0:57
Over-the-shoulder shot of a person in a dark sweater gesturing with both hands toward a monitor showing mouse brain scans and bar charts. A blurred object frames the left edge. A white subtitle sits at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “this nasal spray as a platform technology”
Camera: Static
24 · Feature reveal · 0:57–1:00
A female scientist in a white coat and glasses works a pipette at a dim lab bench under green ambient light. A bracketed name lower-third slides in at the left while white subtitles run along the bottom. The camera holds a medium shot with a slight reframe.
On-screen text: “this nasal spray as”, “a platform technology”, “Dr. Huiyi Liang”, “FOUNDING SENIOR SCIENTIST”, “Advances in”, “Al driven drug”
Camera: Pull out
25 · Feature reveal · 1:00–1:01
A gloved hand holds a beaker of purple liquid in a dim lab. A bracketed nameplate and a two-line caption sit over the footage; the liquid is then emptied as a numbered list of peptides fades in on the right.
On-screen text: “Dr. Huiyi Liang”, “FOUNDING SENIOR SCIENTIST”, “Advances in AI driven drug”, “discovery will come up”, “Future Potential Exploration”, “01 Insulin Memory”, “02 Oxytocin Happiness”, “03 Orexin-A Wakefulness”, “04 GHRH Sleep”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
26 · Feature reveal · 1:01–1:04
A gloved hand in a white coat works over test tube racks in a dim blue lab, partly hidden by a blurred foreground object. A numbered list of compounds and their effects holds on the right while voiceover captions change at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Future Potential Exploration”, “01 Insulin Memory”, “02 Oxytocin Happiness”, “03 Orexin-A Wakefulness”, “04 GHHR Sleep”, “discovery will come up”, “with many promising drugs”, “for neurodegenerative”
Camera: Pan
27 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:07
A researcher in a white lab coat leans over a microscope in a dim teal-lit lab. A numbered list titled Future Potential Exploration holds on the right while a caption in a dark box at the bottom swaps through the spoken line.
On-screen text: “Future Potential Exploration”, “01 Insulin Memory”, “02 Oxytocin Happiness”, “03 Orexin-A Wakefulness”, “04 GHRH Sleep”, “for neurodegenerative”, “disorders such as Parkinson's disease,”
Camera: Pull out
28 · Feature reveal · 1:07–1:09
A man in a white coat and a silhouetted colleague face a monitor of glowing brain scans in a dim lab. A white overlay on the right lists four hormone pairs, while a dark caption box at the bottom swaps from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's and addiction.
On-screen text: “Future Potential Exploration”, “01 Insulin Memory”, “02 Oxytocin Happiness”, “03 Orexin-A Wakefulness”, “04 GHRH Sleep”, “Disorders such as Parkinson's disease,”, “Alzheimer's disease and addiction.”
Camera: Static
29 · Feature reveal · 1:09–1:10
A presentation slide displays scientific images and a list of conditions. A mouse cursor moves across the screen as the view pans right. A white caption at the bottom reads 'Alzheimer's disease and addiction.'
On-screen text: “Alzheimer's disease and addiction.”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Pan
30 · Social proof · 1:10–1:12
A man in a white shirt sits on a lab bench amid green cabinets and equipment, gesturing as he speaks. Large white words “Six” and “months in” lock into the top-left and bottom-right corners, with a small white subtitle line at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Six”, “months in”, “a lot of progress”, “already.”
Camera: Static
31 · Social proof · 1:12–1:13
A video call interface fills the frame: a man in a black jacket speaks in the large panel against a blurred outdoor background, while six smaller participant thumbnails line the top edge. White subtitles read at the bottom as he talks.
On-screen text: “a lot of progress already.”, “We've assembled a team”
Camera: Static
32 · Social proof · 1:13–1:14
A video call screen shows an older man in a red shirt raising both hands and gesturing, beneath a top strip of six participant tiles. A lower-third names him Stephen Shrewsbury, Chief Medical Officer, as subtitles read “We've assembled a team”, then “with decades of experience”.
On-screen text: “Stephen Shrewsbury”, “CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER”, “We've assembled a team”, “with decades of experience”
Camera: Static
33 · Social proof · 1:14–1:15
A video call interface holds a locked-off frame: a woman speaks in the main view beneath a strip of six participant thumbnails. A bracketed nameplate in the lower left reads Kelsey Satterly, VP of Preclinical, while subtitles caption her words at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Kelsey Satterly”, “VP OF PRECLINICAL”, “and several approved intranasal nanoparticle”
Camera: Static
34 · Social proof · 1:15–1:16
A locked-off video-call view shows a bald man speaking before blurred shelves, with six named participant thumbnails across the top and a bracketed lower third identifying him. Bold white subtitles transcribe his words along the bottom edge.
On-screen text: “Dr. Ben Maynor”, “VP OF CMC | FORMULATION & MANUFACTURING”, “and several approved”, “intranasal nanoparticle”
Camera: Static
35 · Social proof · 1:16–1:17
A video-call screen with a six-tile participant strip across the top and a large webcam feed of a gray-haired man in glasses speaking. A bracketed lower-third names him on the left, and a centered subtitle reads the spoken line. The frame is locked off and letterboxed.
On-screen text: “Dr. Scott Harris”, “ADVISOR | CLINICAL & ENDOCRINE”, “intranasal nanoparticle”, “drugs between them.”
Camera: Static
36 · Social proof · 1:17–1:18
A hazy aerial frames a white industrial office building beside a green field, a car on the road. It cuts to a bright lab where a masked technician in a white coat works at a bench, another person at a desk with monitors. A subtitle carries the line.
On-screen text: “We finished our first PK study,”
Camera: Static
37 · Social proof · 1:18–1:19
A wide, static shot of a bright white laboratory where two researchers in white coats work, one standing at a back bench and one seated at a computer. White subtitle text in a gray rounded box reads at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “We finished our first PK study,”, “we signed our manufacturing partner”
Camera: Static
38 · Social proof · 1:19–1:21
A white lab machine with four vertical column assemblies and black circular bases sits on a table in a bright room. The camera slowly pushes in while bottom-center subtitles change from the manufacturing partner line to the scaling up line.
On-screen text: “we signed our”, “manufacturing partner”, “and now”, “we're scaling up.”
Camera: Static
39 · Other · 1:21–1:23
A white benchtop instrument with an open dark chamber holds two stacked racks of clear glass test tubes. The rack shifts a few centimeters forward on a locked-off shot while a gray subtitle box stays fixed at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “I really want LionBio to be a name”
Camera: Static
40 · Other · 1:23–1:25
A researcher in blue gloves and a white coat holds a capped test tube over a lab bench, twisting the cap. An orange tube rack and a blue box sit in the soft-focus foreground and background. Subtitles change line by line at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “I really want LionBio”, “to be a name”, “that people recognize”, “and trust,”
Camera: Static
41 · Other · 1:25–1:27
A woman in a white lab coat and blue gloves works inside a biosafety cabinet, holding a pipette over a vial while a man's shoulder sits blurred in the left foreground. White subtitles in a dark box roll along the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “and trust,”, “because most people”, “never get to know”, “the companies”, “that are actually”
Camera: Static
42 · Other · 1:27–1:28
Two researchers in white lab coats sit in a dim laboratory; the man on the right, wearing purple gloves, gestures with both hands as he speaks, while the woman with glasses sits beside him. Subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “the companies that are actually”, “developing the medicine.”, “And that's why”
Camera: Static
43 · Other · 1:28–1:31
A man in a white shirt sits on a stool in a lab with green cabinets, speaking to camera and gesturing with both hands. Large white words “Bring my background” pop in word by word across the frame, while small subtitles track his speech at the bottom.
On-screen text: “And that's why”, “I want”, “to bring my background”, “Bring my background”, “in investing”, “in consumer at a16z”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
44 · Other · 1:31–1:33
A man in a black t-shirt sits at a wooden conference table, gesturing with a raised hand as he speaks to a colleague seen from behind in the foreground. A laptop, water bottle and small objects sit on the table before a brick wall. White subtitles caption his speech at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “in investing in consumer at a16z”, “into this, and create”
Camera: Static
45 · Other · 1:33–1:34
Two men sit in light armchairs on a stage, the one on the right gesturing as he speaks. A white backdrop behind them reads a16z/speedrun, fronted by a row of snake plants and a small SR pedestal.
On-screen text: “into this, and create”
Camera: Static
46 · Other · 1:34–1:35
A man in a white shirt sits on a lab bench facing the camera, gesturing with both hands while he speaks. Green cabinets, shelves of boxes and a gas cylinder fill the background. White subtitles swap at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “into this, and create”, “LionBio into a real”, “consumer brand.”
Camera: Static
47 · Other · 1:35–1:37
A cluster of framed family photographs on a desk fills the frame as the camera pans slowly right, the shallow focus drifting across the pictures. White subtitles sit at the bottom center, swapping from one line to the next.
On-screen text: “It kind of all comes”, “together here.”
Camera: Pan
48 · Other · 1:37–1:38
A framed portrait of a smiling man in a dark suit and red tie holding a small tan dog with a red frilly collar hangs on a plain gray wall. The shot is static and centered on the white-matted frame, with a small placard beneath it.
On-screen text: “together here.”, “My family, the science,”
Camera: Static
49 · Other · 1:38–1:38
In a dim, blue-lit lab, a hand in a blue nitrile glove sets a clear multi-well plate onto the base of a black instrument. The camera holds a locked-off close-up while a caption sits at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “My family, the science,”
Camera: Static
50 · Other · 1:38–1:39
In a dim lab, a person in a white shirt points at a monitor showing fluorescence images and bar charts while an older man in glasses smiles in profile. The camera holds a locked-off two-shot as white subtitles roll across the bottom.
On-screen text: “My family, the science,”, “and this place”, “at Columbia.”
Camera: Static
51 · Other · 1:39–1:40
Two men sit on wide stone steps before a columned classical building, a small dog resting between them. Pedestrians walk past and students sit on the steps behind. A white subtitle on a dark rounded bar sits at the bottom. The camera holds a locked-off wide shot.
On-screen text: “and this place”, “at Columbia.”
Camera: Static
52 · Outro · 1:40–1:44
Wide shot of the Columbia University plaza and Low Library, people strolling. The white LIONBIO wordmark assembles in the center, the background racks into soft focus, and the tagline The Nasal Peptide Company fades in below. Voiceover captions sit at the bottom.
On-screen text: “and this place”, “at Columbia.”, “But I think we're just getting started.”, “LIONBIO”, “The Nasal Peptide Company”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Pan
53 · Outro · 1:44–1:48
A white LIONBIO wordmark and tagline hold center on a dark blue gradient. A ring of small white square particles rotates and densifies behind the logo, forming a soft circular halo. The text remains static throughout the four second sign off.
On-screen text: “LIONBIO”, “The Nasal Peptide Company”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out