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3D Intro Animation
3D Science Open Animation
We have a philosophy at Horizons: "Don't leave them asking for more!" This opening animation is a prime example of that. We received a request to create a prototype video for a possible upcoming project. In the process of producing the prototype, we decided to create this 3D animation to introduce the video. Take a look at the animation - it denotes the underlying implication that the video series will take the viewer from the molecular level of cells (Life Science) to the realms of space (Physical Science) -- and everywhere in between!
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Math Personal Tutors
Let's face it, students today have a lot going on in their lives. As a result, they sometimes miss a lesson because of conflicts with other activities. Or, they have trouble grasping what their teacher was trying to get across to them in class. Fortunately, today's students also have a virtual assistant to help make sure they understand the critical material. Horizons partnered with McGraw-Hill to create the "Personal Tutor", a proprietary software that is just that - a tutor available to students 24/7, anywhere they have access to an internet connection. We've taken important math concepts - and explained them with visuals and audio - in a format that students can pause, rewind, or watch over and over until the information sinks in. We have created thousands of individual problem-solving walkthroughs for each mathematics level from Grade 3 through calculus. What could be better than having your own Personal Tutor?
Video
Virginia Time Links Video
One of the biggest trends in educational publishing today is the re-purposing of existing media into different and updated formats. With this project, we took some existing videos...sprinkled in some brand new footage...and added new updated menus and packaging to create an affordable (and "new") product for State Specific use.
Video
Treasures Promo Video
A high quality textbook program can only be effective if it makes it into the classroom. Consequently, even the best scholastic products need to be promoted to their potential customers. This textbook promo features the Macmillan McGraw-Hill’s
Treasures
Reading program for K-6 students. State-specific versions of this video were produced for adoptions in California and Texas, as well as a generic version for national use.
Animation
Web
SRA Snapshots & Simply Science
Horizons Companies played a vital, ongoing role throughout the development and execution of this grades 1-5 educational project for McGraw-Hill Education's SRA [elementary school] Division. From developing the graphic design and layout of the integrated textbook pages and video screens...to conceiving, researching and writing ninety-nine different video scripts...to shooting, editing and creating animations for the videos...and to creating custom music tracks, every single member of Horizons Companies' staff lent his or her expertise to the project. In addition, Horizons also programmed four separate versions of the e-Books for
Snapshots Simply Science
in English and in Spanish.
www.SRA Snapshots.com
Video
What's Health Got To Do With It?
What's Health Got To Do With It?
is a product that takes difficult and sensitive subjecs for teens, and addresses them in an engaging and lively fashion. At times, it even involves conversations between teens themselves in round table settings, discussing how these topics affect their lives. This was a unique project in that we combined efforts with two other production companies across the country in order to meet a very tight turnaround time. Ultimately, we took all three sets of videos and produced a DVD master as the deliverable.
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Commercial
Team JEGS
Keeping up with the Coughlin family is no easy task - considering that the racing family (now sporting its third generation of drivers) covers the quarter-mile track at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour! At the Team Jegs web site, fans can get the latest news on their favorite drivers, see up to the minute standings, and get all kinds of behind the scenes information about America's fastest drag racing clan.
www.teamjegs.com
Video
Web
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course & School
If there's one thing that fans of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the Mid-Ohio Racing School enjoy, it's speed. So, Horizons redesigned the Mid-Ohio web site to be faster, friendlier, and more functional. Visitors to the site can create a personal account to buy tickets, purchase merchandise, enroll in courses and even buy gift cards. For the client, they now have a back-end system that's more robust, elegant and easy to manage. You might say it handles like a dream - even on hairpin turns!
www.midohio.com
Video with Animation
Synca-Swing
What's the secret to improving your golf game? Consistent, repeatable strokes. Here's part of an infomercial we produced to help market a device that helps golfers find and develop that perfect swing. The informercial aired numerous times on national cable, particularly on the Golf Channel.
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Titleist
For one of the most respected names in golf equipment and apparel, only top quality video production will do. Horizons produced a series of marketing videos for Titleist, including this one for the Titleist Performance Institute.
Buckeye Classics Overview
Buckeye Classics
It's perhaps the most comprehensive audiovisual history of Ohio State University football. For six years, Buckeye Classics was a staple of the Buckeye fanatic's diet, appearing on television stations and cable outlets throughout the state of Ohio. Today, the compendium resides on more than a dozen purchasable DVDs, and covers the legendary players, coaches, traditions and contests of OSU football lore. Combining interviews, first hand accounts, game footage and more, Buckeye Classics is a series that will undoubtedly stand the test of time.
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Americheer
Television production is one of the many services offered by Horizons. We've produced television specials as well as episodic series for local, regional and national TV. For Americheer, we produced The Ohio Cheerleading and Dance Championships, a live-to-tape multi-camera program broadcast throughout the state of Ohio. All of the technical production, including graphics, editing and audio, were completed in house by Horizons staff.
Animation
3D Chest Scan
Web
Interactive
MRI Advance
When Dr. Daniel White realized the efficacy of using MRI to detect early breast cancer, he came to Horizons. We created an interactive educational program for breast MRI with nearly 100 video components, developed a web-based software platform (DICOM-compatible) for tracking and managing patient data, created a CME exam for physicians using the program, and designed and developed the MRI Advance web site.
www.MRIAdvance.com
Video
Holzer
Horizons has created and produced dozens of television and radio commercials for
Holzer
Medical
Center
and Holzer Clinics – the largest health care system in southeast
Ohio
. We wrote nearly all of the copy for these spots, and the creative was shaped by our staff from the initial concept on. The spots cover a wide variety of topics and feature an equally wide range of stylistic approaches. One of the spots was even voted as the fan favorite by regional viewers of the Super Bowl!
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3D Catheter Animation
Branding
Marketing
Print
PercuVision, Inc.
When respected urologist Dr. Erroll Singh invented a new product for urethral catheterization which would reduce patient trauma and improve medical outcomes, he turned to Horizons for help in getting that product to market. In a remarkable collaborative effort, we designed and produced everything from his web presence to his business cards (and even hosted his investor meetings). By providing innumerable services to help him get his invention patented and manufactured, Horizons played an integral role in helping Dr. Singh’s PercuVision become the gold standard in visually guided catheterization.
www.percuvision.com
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Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health is a global company serving the health care industry with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. With annual revenues approaching $100 billion, it's ranked #18 on the Fortune 500. When Cardinal was in the midst of updating the look and feel of its branding design, it selected Horizons to help communicate the change to the company's global network of employees. This "Brand Day" video that Horizons produced for Cardinal includes a message from Cardinal's founder Robert Walter, along with video shot on location at several of the company's North American sites.
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Radiology, Inc.
Horizons designed and developed a multi-function web site for this group of 55 affiliated radiology physicians. For the front end of the web site, patients and visitors can learn about the doctors, the emerging technologies and treatment options, and other vital information. For the back end of the site, Horizons created a scheduling system through which the physicians can schedule their work and vacation activity, and also access documentation, policy information and other pertinent patient data for their practices.
www.radiologyinc.com
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Video
Ohio Willow Wood
Losing a leg through injury or illness doesn't have to signal the end of one's dreams. Ohio Willow Wood has been developing prosthetic limbs for more than a century - originally out of wood, and later out of things like advanced composite materials. In this video, entitled "Free the Body, Free the Spirit", Horizons profiles several individuals who continue to pursue extremely active lifestyles, in spite of their amputations, thanks to an artificial leg called the Pathfinder. Our crews traveled around the country to collect these inspiring stories.
The Science of Candy
The Science of Soccer
Titanic Exhibit
COSI Television Spots
In 2009, the Columbus Center of Science and Industry was selected by Parents magazine as the #1 science center in the country. Horizons helps COSI illustrate the fact that when children go to COSI, they learn.
Video
Columbus Museum of Art
When the Columbus Museum of Art needed nearly 100 million dollars in contributions to expand and update its facilities, it turned to Horizons for help. The campaign videos featured comments from key museum trustees, benefactors, patrons and staff - as well as great artwork from the museum's impressive collection. A long form video was sent to potential donors, and played for select donor groups. This short piece ran in the museum's lobby during the
Art Matters
campaign.
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The Ohio State University
Horizons has produced a variety of audiovisual products for The Ohio State University, including this video designed to recruit prospective out-of-state students.
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Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a national nonprofit organization working to speed the adoption process for the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America's foster care systems. For the foundation, Horizons consolidated a variety of incongruous web sites into one consistent style. We redesigned the navigation and layout to make it faster and easier to access information. We also added a robust yet user-friendly content management system, so foundation staff could easily update the site's pages.
www.davethomasfoundation.org
Web
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio is a non-profit organization that helps thousands of individuals each day, within a 55-county area surrounding Columbus. Through its food programs, housing programs and a matrix of charitable efforts, LSS aims to improve the lives of those in need of physical and spiritual support. Horizons designed, developed and produced this web presence for LSS.
www.lssco.org
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Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation
Statistics have proven time and again that most smokers developed the deadly habit before they were old enough to legally purchase tobacco. This web site, produced for the not-for-profit Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, provides resources and information designed to assist in the battle against underage smoking.
www.tobacco21.org
Video
Kasich for Governor
When former United States Congressman John Kasich publicly announced his intention to run for Governor of Ohio in 2010, Horizons Companies was called on to help. Employing a multi-camera setup, Horizons produced all of the video elements that were assembled to create this stirring announcement.
Political
Dan Burton for Congress
Television advertising has become an essential component of successful political campaigns, and Horizons' camera crews excel at bringing winning images to the screen. Regardless of how you may feel about a candidate, you'll like the way they look when we're behind the camera. This spot recently won a national Pollie Award, presented by the American Association of Political Consultants to recognize the best in political and public affairs communications. Over the past couple of years, we've helped one of our clients win no less than 25 of these coveted awards!
Political TV Spot
Family Research Council TV Spot
Political TV Spot
Dewey Bartlett for Tulsa, AZ Mayor
Television Spot
Volunteer Energy Television Spot
This lively spot showcases a variety of our 2D and 3D animation capabilities, along with our green screen video production and audio post. The scenes with the on-camera spokesperson were shot in our green studio with built-in infinity cyc wall, then the supporting images were created and seamlessly composited by our motion graphics team. Sound effects were scored to the action to create the crowning touch.
Web Ads
Big Lots!
Online shopping has gone from being a leap of faith to a comfortable, well-accepted practice. But a buyer's confidence can still be bolstered, especially when he or she can actually
watch
the product work. Big Lots! is a retailer that understands this fact, and has produced a series of "Online Deal of the Day" videos. This example clip is from one of those videos.
Big Lots!
Commercial
The Ohio State University Medical Center
This spot is one of several produced for The Ohio State University Medical Center, in conjunction with a Central Ohio advertising agency. The spot combines stock footage and text graphics to drive home the importance of getting high quality medical treatment for stroke victims as quickly as possible.
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The Good Feet Store
This national spot for The Good Feet Store stars legendary former professional football player Emmitt Smith. The National Football League's all-time leader in rushing yardage and rushing touchdown, Smith has also been crowned champion on the ABC's hit TV show
Dancing With the Stars
. In this series of Horizons-produced spots, Smith details how The Good Feet Store is able to satisfy the special footware needs brought on by his football, dancing and other activities.
Telly Award Winning Commercial
Commercial
Multiple Spots
Diamond Cellar
Over the past several years, Horizons has produced dozens of broadcast spots for this esteemed Columbus jeweler and its subsidiaries. From talking diamonds to extreme close-ups of sparkling jewels, or from offbeat re-enactments to heartfelt customer testimonies, the goal is always the same: to inspire potential customers to make The Diamond Cellar their jeweler of choice.
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MediGold
Making health insurance choices can can be complicated, even overwhelming. That's why Mount Carmel Health System wanted customers to know its Medicare Advantage plan is easy to understand - and is handled by people they know. These samples are taken from a pair of campaigns we produced for Mount Carmel. One spot features the classic tune by Lionel Richie,
Easy Like Sunday Morning
.
Video with Animation Part 1
Video with Animation Part 2
WorkForce Connects
This project was a little unusual, in that it was developed to market the McGraw-Hill Workforce Connects program internally, to McGraw-Hill people. It is a very timely and needed program for getting people ready, trained and into the workforce. Take a look!
Video
ABB
International engineering giant ABB specializes in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance and lower their environmental impact. Horizons produced this video to help market the firm's IT solutions - and traveled halfway around the world to shoot it.
Video
Abercrombie & Fitch
The Central Ohio based clothing retailer has chosen Horizons to produce several of its recent employee training videos. Covering subjects ranging from Loss Prevention and new employee orientation to inventory control scanning devices, the videos have been custom made for each of A&F's divisions (which include abercrombie, Hollister, Ruehl, Gilly Hicks and the parent company Abercrombie & Fitch). The videos have also been reformatted for use in A&F's burgeoning international markets. And while the videos are meant for a strictly in-house audience, they bear the hip, energetics style the company has become famous for.
Video
Video
Stanley Steemer
From employee training pieces to dozens of national TV spots, Horizons has produced a substantial body of work for Stanley Steemer International. This video sample is from an employee education program about a new tile and grout cleaning service. The video features a pair of actual Stanley Steemer employees.
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Wendy's/Arby's Group InSite Intranet
As fast food giants Wendy's International and Arby's Roast Beef Restaurants merged in 2008, the new company needed a secure intranet site to help associates from both branches stay up to date with the changes that were taking place. The Wendy's Arby's Group turned to Horizons to tackle this challenge, and we designed an intranet site for WAG with customized security (so employees would not have to deal with the daily hassle of logging in, while outsiders would be denied access). The site also allowed WAG administrators to update content on the web site quickly and with ease. The 'transitional' site became so popular with WAG associates as a place to stay current with company news, it continues to serve that function long after the merger was complete.
Intro Video
Rescue Tool Video
Video with Animation
Channellock
If a picture on your web site is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth...millions. Channellock may be the most recognized name in hand tools, but showing why they’re so respected can’t hurt either. Especially when you’ve got a brand new product, or some nifty features that can be demonstrated with video, animation and graphics. The days of boring, text-heavy web sites is over. Horizons can help your site come alive with motion, color and energy.
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Lead 21: K-5 Literacy Instruction eSampler
Horizons’ education technology team is creating online demos like this K-5 Literacy Instruction eSampler, that gives educators access to complete samples of all of the program’s materials. It’s comparable to having an actual program sample box in your hands without having to send such a package to every interested educator. Take a few minutes to explore, it is pretty amazing!
Texas Treasures Literature eSampler
Texas Treasures Literature eSampler
Horizons’ education technology team is creating online demos like this Texas Treasures Literature eSampler, that give educators access to complete samples of all of the program’s materials. It’s comparable to having an actual program sample box in your hands without having to send such a package to every interested educator. Take a few minutes to explore, it is pretty amazing!
Florida Science Programs eSampler
Florida Science Programs eSampler
Horizons’ education technology team is creating online demos like this Florida Science Programs eSampler, that give educators access to complete samples of all of the program’s materials. It’s comparable to having an actual program sample box in your hands without having to send such a package to every interested educator. Take a few minutes to explore, it is pretty amazing!
Interactive
Wendy's Christmas eCard
Our customized Holiday eCard helped Wendy’s International send cheerful, colorful, animated greetings to thousands of associates, customers and vendors worldwide – instantly, and without a penny of postage.
www.wendysholidaycard.com
Finance Email
Science Email
Illinois Email
McGraw-Hill Email Campaigns
We are betting that you have email addresses for most of your clients! If that is the case, then we can design and deploy e-mail marketing campaigns for just about anything you want to sell or inform your clients about. These can be done nationwide, state specific, even school district specific if that is your desire. This is a really reliable, quick, to-the-point and trackable way to contact all of your clients without having to use snail mail.
Snapshots Email
Personal Tutor Email
Studio C Email
Horizons [Companies] Email Campaigns
We aren't above using shameless self-promotion. Here are a few samples of some of our own eMarketing email campaigns. Hopefully you have seen them before!
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