Benjie Messer » the Mating Game http://benjiemesser.com benjiemesser@gmail.com Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:18:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Mating Game http://benjiemesser.com/2008/08/04/the-mating-game/ http://benjiemesser.com/2008/08/04/the-mating-game/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:22:00 +0000 benjie http://benjiemesser.com/?p=41 Two weeks ago, I composed music for the romantic comedy “The Mating Game”, the Phoenix Independent Film Makers Group’s entry in the IFP-Phoenix 48-hr film challenge. Friday at 7:00 PM we were given a prop (a spatula), a line (“How did that get in there?”), and a genre (we got comedy). Our completed 3-minute film was due Sunday evening at 7:00 PM. There were 30 or so teams that participated- the screening this Thursday involved more spatula-related homicides than most of my evenings out.

I didn’t get to score to picture, just to the script, because of the time contraint, but I think the music ended up working fairly well anyway, and it was fun to do. Here’s the 5-minute “director’s cut”:

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