Posts Tagged ‘Homework Hotline’

Video campaign gives behind-the-scenes look at tutoring program

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

By Steve Beard, creative director

Borshoff client Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Homework Hotline provides free math and science homework help to Indiana students in grades 6–12. Many of the students who call the Homework Hotline are repeat callers. But for students who have never called, a fear of the unknown is often their biggest obstacle.

To tell the Homework Hotline story, Borshoff needed a medium that would communicate quickly and convey the personality of the organization and its tutors. We recommended video because it has emerged as the medium of choice for sharing information on the Internet.

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Lights, camera, ACTION!

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

By Andrea Farmer, APR, account manager

“Any hobbies?”
“Genetics. It started when I was eight years old, and I wanted to genetically alter myself into a mermaid.”

This was just one of the fun facts we learned while interviewing tutors during a video shoot Tuesday for Rose-Hulman’s Homework Hotline, one of Borshoff’s longtime clients. The Homework Hotline provides free math and science homework help to Indiana students in grades 6-12.

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A few of my colleagues and I spent the day at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s beautiful campus.  We directed our videographer Brian Wells as he shot B-roll footage for media use and more informal footage for video vignettes to be posted on Homework Hotline’s Facebook page and website.

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