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Lane Spigner graduated from IAR in February 2006, at which time he began an internship at Goldcrest Post Production Studio in New York. While at Goldcrest, Lane was able to make edits for various independent films, perform and record Foley for film and television, and learn all of the ins and outs of the daily studio routine. In May, he moved to Kingsize Music, which was in the process of putting together a pre-production library of music to be used in film and television for Sony/ATV. They were in need of editors for their cues, as well as someone to supervise and catalog all of their submissions for the library.
After interning for a short time at Kingsize, Lane accepted a position as Production Supervisor for the Sony/ATV Production Music Library. There, he is responsible for reviewing and approving composer submissions for the library, maintaining a relationship with the composers, cataloging and meta-tagging the cues for the library, and creating edits for each of the cues using ProTools . Lane has also started his own company, Audial Bliss, where he is able to submit music for various small films, including one that was just accepted for the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2007.
“I found that IAR gave me a broad scope of the live and studio work environment, and helped me to decide which path I needed to take. It also gave me a great reference for future opportunities by teaching me how to promote myself as a business, and that there are more ways than one to finding work in New York. I had to put myself out there, and not expect work to just come to me,” he said.
His advice to current IAR students and grads is, “Don’t take anything for granted. Some opportunities don’t reveal themselves immediately, so just be patient. Any work in this field is to be cherished. Another thing I have learned is to know when something isn’t the right fit. Great advice from IAR staff in regards to an internship: if you aren’t learning at least 50 percent of the time you are giving, it may be time to move on.”
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