[Enter Title Screen] is one of the first pieces I created using Ableton. My goal for this project was to try to write a song that would play during the opening montage of a video game title screen. I was inspired by the sound of retro video game music and I wanted to emulate that through my choice of MIDI instruments and use of melodic motifs. This is an upbeat song with lots of bouncing energy, meant to excite the player for the game they're about to play.

For this piece, I wanted to explore the genre of musical theatre, combining my background as a singer-songwriter with my composer side. The story of my musical focuses on an aspiring screenwriter whose work gets stolen. The resulting movie is a big success but he doesn't receive any credit for it. This song begins with him feeling disheartened - he sits in his apartment wallowing in sadness but eventually, he resolves to write an even better script so that one day, the world will know his name. However, he accidentally ends up falling in love with the heroine of his own story, even though she isn't real and doesn't know he exists. The musical itself is humorous and satirical, while the lyrics are laced with irony. I had a lot of fun writing the interactions between the lyrics and the music, especially when the two characters finally sing together at the end.