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Geoff Zanelli scores Disturbia

This past week Emmy-winning composer Geoff Zanelli (Into the West) recorded his score for the Dreamworks feature thriller, Disturbia. Directed by D.J. Caruso, the film is about a young man (Shia LaBeouf) who is put under house arrest, and begins to believe that one of his neighbors is a serial killer. 

To score the film, Zanelli balanced the tense frenetic orchestral thrills with contemporary rock elements to underscore the romantic aspects of the film. "I feel cheated if you're watching a teen romance and there's underscore," Zanelli explained to Soundtrack.net. "Your average 16-year old guy is going to be falling in love listening to whatever is on the radio at the time. So I wanted to kill two birds with one stone - I knew that the film would have a lot of licensed songs in the first half, and I didn't want the score and the songs to be fighting." With that idea in mind, Zanelli wrote a love theme that was "conceived in verse-chorus form, and could easily be turned into a song." 

Read the full interview and scoring session report at www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=895