![]() ![]() ![]() The funding support I received gave me a head start on my career, and I couldn’t be more grateful. This experience led to my dream job right out of the gate, which is incredibly rare for people graduating and hoping to work in film and television. Los Angeles is expensive, and I never would have been able to afford housing and food without the assistance of the Class of 1981 Internship Endowment.” Skylark Sound Studios, Inc., Burbank, California. Advanced Audio has a 30-year history of satisfied clients, including all of the major film. Headquartered in Burbank, CA., the worlds media production capitol, Advanced Audio specializes in rental and support of the latest audio technologies. Stensland adds, “Even though many internships pay an hourly rate, it’s often not enough to cover other expenses,” she adds. Advanced Audio is one of the countrys most trusted pro audio service and support providers. “I did manage to say yes, though, and I can’t wait to start working there full-time.” “I loved every minute of my internship, so being offered a full-time job left me speechless,” she says. Toward the end of the summer, McIntyre and Lynch approached Stensland about coming on board full-time after graduation as a sound editor. “It was such a thrill to go from watching it to actually creating sound for it, especially for such a big segment within an episode.” “I’ve been a big fan of this show for a long time,” she says. Sound Rebels even tasked Stensland with a special project: to sound design eight minutes of an episode of Inside Job. Her primary responsibilities included editing sound effects, creating ambient sounds, and maintaining client services. Every day, she worked on such projects as Nickelodeon’s Middlemost Post, a kids’ comedy series Paramount+’s Big Nate, a kid’s series created by Nickelodeon and Netflix’s Inside Job, an adult-oriented science fiction series. Lynch, interviewed Stensland over Zoom and she aced it, securing the summer-long internship. Roessner’s friend is Rob McIntyre, an Emmy Award-winning supervising sound editor who cofounded Sound Rebels, LLC, a Burbank, California-based audio post-production company that provides sound design and mixing services for animated television, movies, and reality TV. ![]() I knew he had a friend in Los Angeles who worked in the entertainment business, and I asked him to connect me, which he did.” “So, when it came time for me to look for an internship, I reached out to my audio engineering professor, Stephen Roessner. “Working at the Greene Center during my sophomore and junior years gave me insight into the importance of networking, interviewing, and professional communication,” she says. Greene Center for Career Education & Connections. Stensland found her internship by tapping into her network, which she learned how to do at her work-study job at the Gwen M. Working as an intern in the summer of 2022 helped her hone those interests, too, and find her niche-an experience made possible by the Class of 1981 Internship Endowment. When it came time to choose a college, she was drawn to Rochester for its open curriculum, which she knew would give her many opportunities to explore her broad interests. Grace Stensland ’23, a Syracuse, New York, native, grew up loving movies, photography, and Broadway shows. Rob McIntyre, an Emmy award-winning supervising sound editor and sound designer, and Grace Stensland ’23 in Gavett Hall’s recording studio. ![]()
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