Katelyn Capri Zenie

Office Production Assistant for Empire (Season 5)

-Performed technical green screen and camera duties -Capture one of a kind family memories for kids and adults to enjoy -Quickly organized lines and controlled lines -Trained a group of 15 employees customer service and troubleshooting techniques -Responsible for the upkeep and stocking of four stands located at a popular Chicago zoo -Edited and sold many photo memory products daily -Worked seasonal events like Rob Zombie Haunted House and Santa at Zoo Lights -Wrote the weekly schedule for the operation -Kept track of daily sales and shooter per hour ratios and applied them to benefit our sales numbers -Designed and executed incentive programs to help keep sales and moral high

-Learned data analysis techniques to draw knowledge from screening surveys -Wrote impact production case study for religious calling documentary -Found and documented potential fair use issues in post production of festival film -Assisted in post production of a HotDocs accepted documentary -Volunteered at GoodPitchChi -Filmed and edited a creative metrics panel -Scripted out and edited large audio files for StoryCorps -Volunteered at many School Project screenings -Cold called many politicians and policy makers to attend School Project events -Directed an independent documentary project from pre to post production -Learned how to develop a compelling documentary treatment -Spreadsheet film festival dates and specifications -Photographed staff for website

-Participated in News7, an award winning college television news station out of northern Vermont -Assigned to cover breaking and feature news stories in the 14 rural Vermont towns -Held a concentration within the News7 curriculum of production and design -Traveled on stories with our reporters or alone as a photo journalist to develop compelling content -Responsible for shooting and editing stories on deadline for our live daily newscast -Developed strong professionalism and communication skills Technical skills I have gained: °Shooting news PKG/VOSOTs using Panasonic P2, and DVCpro ENG cameras °Edited using Avid News Cutter and Final Cut Pro °Produced full screen, over the shoulder, and lower third graphics for the daily newscast °In studio camera set up and operation, studio design, lighting, video and audio playback °Technical directing "LSCTV’s Emmy© award winning news organization provides twice-daily live newscasts of local and regional news and weather via cable to over 9,000 subscribers in rural northeastern Vermont and northern New Hampshire. The News 7 operation is driven entirely by Lyndon’s Electronic Journalism Arts majors with limited oversight by EJA faculty. The station is a CNN award school affiliate, subscribes to the Associated Press news service."