DVD featurettes about the original score

There is a pretty good one about the scoring, recording, ... proces of Bear McCreary for the series Battlestar Galactica. It's called 'Evolution of a cue' and it gives you insight in how much he accomplishes in so little time. It litterally shows you the process from bear seeing the episode, coming up with ideas, orchestrating them, recording the musicians, ... the whole nine yards... It's on the Season 4 DVD box of Battlestar Galactica (4.5).

In box 4.0 there is a parody 'making of the music', which doesn't tell you anything about the process, except that Bear has a great sense of humor.

Elin

I'm sure you know about the pretty interesting Zimmer featurettes on:

- Gladiator
- Hannibal
- Black Hawk Down
- Matchstick Men (very frank on the many frustrations between composer and director - you can see why this was their last project together).

Also, Desplat talks about his music on the BluRay (and DVD?) of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Powell on The Bourne Supremacy...

Also pretty original is the video diary by Michael Giacchino's son, made by request of Brad Bird, during the writing and recording of Ratatouille, as found on the BluRay of the film. It's cute, but don't expect to go too deep into the music .

Any links for the Zimmer ones? And i gather you're talking about the region 1 dvd's ?

Go no further than the brilliant 1980 making of the music documentary for The Empire Strikes Back.

I also really like James Horner's open and honest featurette on the making of Aliens and The Wrath of Khan.

-Erik-

Great docu, i've seen it before, crappy sound though.

If everyone, like Erik, has youtube links (or anything else similar) it'll be greatly helpful! The lists are great too, i'll have to look those dvd's up

I have no idea whether this documentary will be excellent, but it will be included on the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Ultimate Edition DVD & Blu-ray released this fall. "Creating the World of Harry Potter Part 4: Sound & Music" will have interviews with the sound designers and new ones with Williams, Doyle, Hooper and Desplat respectively.

According to the reviews below, the most recent US DVD releases of Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle In The Sky, My Neighbor Totoro has an interview section called Scoring Miyazaki (7:19), featuring Joe Hisaishi.

http://animatedviews.com/2010/castle-in-the-sky/
http://animatedviews.com/2010/my-neighbor-totoro/
http://animatedviews.com/2010/kikis-delivery-service/

Apparently those US editions have much more extra features than ridiculously expensive Japanese releases

Hannibal, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down have score featurettes.

Most recent Ridley Scott DVD releases (2-DVD collector editions) usually have a very comprehensive documentary on the whole filmmaking process and usually the post-production chapter does discuss the score. The only one I remember not discussing the score was Gladiator.

You could also check director commentaries, but it's hit and miss, really. At the end of Man on Fire commentary, Tony Scott discusses the music in an interesting way.

the director's cut of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN has a featurette about the scoring process. the SINBAD dvd has also a making of, where harry talks about his score.

about other composers:

Music from the film SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON - Hans Zimmer & Bryan Adams (10 minutes)
Scoring a sequel - Trevor Rabin (5 dvd set of NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS) (6 minutes)
Creation of the film score - Tamiya Terashima (TALES FROM EARTHSEA) (60 minutes) that's a great documentary.

Making Of DAREDEVIL Director's Cut - Graeme Revell (6 minutes) very good
The music in STEALTH - BT (15 minutes) very very good

the TOP GUN special edition has also a featurette about the soundtrack (songs and score).

Yes, although is a very short featurette. If I'm not wrong, it's about 10 minutes long. Not enough!

Actually that's probably one of the best behind the scenes features I've seen.

There's also the big Lost Symphony featurette on the season 4 DVD. It's a bit full of other crew members gushing about the music, but the footage of the rehearsal and planning before the concert are cool.

Some are available online...

Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 158299311#

Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EyezO8qD0
(I think this is from the DVD, but the bonus disc of limited edition soundtrack has a different video)



I know some more videos from animation DVDs, I'll post them later

Out of the links you posted, i also spotted:

kingdom of heaven scoring process
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODc4NzIyNA==.html

hans zimmer composes "hymn to the fallen" from blackhawk down
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … amp;emb=1#

gladiator commentary by hans zimmer
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … amp;emb=1#

john williams talks about "jaws"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 4332760951

marco beltrami "die hard 4.0"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHqBWmEqFU

marco beltrami's "omen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-YcZllYEg

marco beltrami's "blade ii"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhQ0X3B6rY

james newton howard's "signs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZbcnCxLKA

Marco Beltrami and Tommy Lee Jones on "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4awm8usGI

Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
Video from DVD (thanks Anthony )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1XcaQI5eU

Another video, not sure where this is from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qozh5kG3ANw


Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille Video Podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij-t0h5SA8U


Thomas Newman - Finding Nemo Trumpet Section (a video from someone "inside"?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTtCQxO1UUA


Randy Newman - The Princess & The Frog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6IlrXgqZ3U


Alan Silvestri - Lilo & Stitch
Scoring sessions from the single disc DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jisRWF_GzFs

Also disc 2 of Special Edition has much longer "Music" Chapter (22:22), interviews with Alan & directors, producers.



And...

Hans Zimmer - The Lion King
2-disc Special Edition has "Music" section running about 25 minutes (!)
Surprisingly, it's mostly interviews with "Scoring/Arrangement Team" (Zimmer, Lebo M, Mancina), rather than "Songwriting Team" (Elton John & Tim Rice).

The most interesting sections are Orchestral Color & Scoring Emotion, entirely Zimmer talking about the process & his thought on the score.

Unfortunately nobody uploaded those two Zimmer interviews, but some of other sections featuring Zimmer & co. are on YouTube.

Musical Inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PgYHzepp9s

African Influence / Audio Sequel / Full Circle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGFS1sFN6I


I also have an avi/mp4 file of Making Of The Lion King from the hard-to-get LD release, including 2 min or so about the score. Contact me if you are interested