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Azhalia Pottinger

Gainesville,FL

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Video Editor

Alachua Academy Department of Juvenile Justice
Gainesville, FL
11.2023 - Current
  • Develop videos utilizing stock and filmed footage, archival material, and voice over narration to serve as a visual component for autobiographical stories written by students attending the Alachua Academy
  • Provide instruction to students on creating story boards that capture their vision and goals for their stories
  • Collaborate with students to write scripts for voice over narration that capture the elements of storytelling

Archival Assistant

Smathers Library
Gainesville, FL
06.2023 - Current
  • Facilitate the repatriation of the Native American Oral History Collection to the Lumbee, Mississippi Choctaw, Cherokee, and Seminole Tribes
  • Organize, folder, and box manuscript following archival procedures
  • Conduct quality control of audio files and database management via Microsoft Teams project site

Stage Hand/Event Staff

Philps Center of the Performing Arts
Gainesville, FL
10.2022 - Current
  • Assist technical staff and touring personnel in load-in, set up, strike, and load-out of theatrical productions
  • Expedite procedures necessary to maintain a fully operational stage
  • Create positive relations between patron and company through hospitality and customer service

Film Instructor

Hippodrome Theatre
Gainesville, FL
06.2023 - 07.2023
  • Designed a curriculum covering cinematography and storytelling for a local theater's two-month summer camp
  • Provided daily instruction to children aged 10-13 in film aspects such as camera shots and angles, story structure, and character archetypes which led to the creation of their first individual short films
  • Collaborated with directors to ensure the successful completion of the camp's live-action rendition of the Jungle Book

Herbarium Intern

Florida Natural Museum
Gainesville, FL
09.2022 - 11.2022
  • Facilitated the digitization of over 500,000 plant specimens essential to species conservation
  • Interfaced with Specify database to catalog Caribbean orchid specimens
  • Operated motorized camera and Sinar Capture Shop software to photograph Caribbean orchid specimens for the museum's collection catalog

Education

Bachelor of Science - Media Production, Management, and Technology

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
05-2025

Skills

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Photoshop

Affiliations

  • WUFT Student Photojournalist 2023-Current
  • Co-director: Out in Stem (OSTEM) 2022-2023

Timeline

Video Editor

Alachua Academy Department of Juvenile Justice
11.2023 - Current

Archival Assistant

Smathers Library
06.2023 - Current

Film Instructor

Hippodrome Theatre
06.2023 - 07.2023

Stage Hand/Event Staff

Philps Center of the Performing Arts
10.2022 - Current

Herbarium Intern

Florida Natural Museum
09.2022 - 11.2022

Bachelor of Science - Media Production, Management, and Technology

University of Florida
Azhalia Pottinger