Pirates 5 Scoring Sessions With Geoff Zanelli - B-Roll

Geoff Zanelli is a great friend of Film.Music.Media and gave us an amazing look into his scoring sessions for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales that took place at the Sony Pictures Scoring Stage in September of 2016. The goal was to attend and take some photos to release with our planned All Access interview, but we also took a little video footage as well. We hope this raw and minimally edited b-roll/"fly on the wall" footage will give an educational and informative look into the scoring sessions of a major blockbuster franchise.

Be sure to watch our All Access interview with Geoff Zanelli as well as we go in-depth into not only Pirates but his entire career.

Shot & Edited By: Kaya Savas

Special Thanks:
Geoff Zanelli
Walt Disney Studios

[DanielVega-nycl]

Consuctor: "Yeah so remember everything you learned in conducting class? Fuck that" 😂

[PianoGeek]

Honestly, I feel like this film had the second best Pirates score.

1. At World's End
2. Dead Men Tell No Tales
3. Dead Man's Chest
4. Curse of the Black Pearl
5. On Stranger Tides

[helloworldstudios]

As a musician, I am quite familiar with this process, and it is challenging, to say the least! The only "Edit Point" is the musical measure, and they are numbered. So if you screw up, the general rule is to go back at least 2 measures before and do it over! Major pain in the butt for everyone which results in monumental recording sessions and over budget production costs!

[younesbahri]

This is amazing !
Thank you very much for sharing this, you could imagine how great this is to a composer to have access to this footage :D

[shinzilla]

All we need right now is a complete score

[calebovich]

As a cellist, I would be afraid of playing under this guy. I struggle follow his gestures

[dimitrisdiavatis]

i so much would like to listen to more of the dialogs

[CroweDharmaReloaded]

I loved the movie and the music. Screw the haters.

[TigerMothEnt]

does anyone know the name of the cue they are playing from 4:20?

[taggartjs]

Wow. That "bang" at :16, when the lights go off, would have made me bit nervous if I was the engineer, or conductor, etc.

[pavlosnoitsis]

I don't get why is Blackbeard's theme used since he's not in the movie?

[stefan.alexandru.marian]

what s the name of the blonde guy who is dirijeur?

[RoelCyborg]

wow they most know it ain't up to standard '' the Hans Zimmer ''effect is gone *_*

[DaveDexterMusic]

What a profoundly wasted opportunity this movie was. It's like a triple layer of rehashed score.

[yoshidaniel]

This guy looks like he has absolutely no idea of the responsability he had in his hands when he was scoring this movie. The soundtrack sucked and ruined every great musical piece Hans made for the franchise