Music Supervisor, Steven Gizicki: We like to describe this, not necessarily as a musical. It’s a film with musical moments. Our songs are little character moments, delicate emotional pieces. We had all the visuals and so all of that informed the music tremendously.
Composer, Alexandre Desplat: The singer, the character, tells you what is going on. And the song has this capacity in a few seconds, to explain the life of a character.
For the whole film I’ve chosen to use only wood instruments. No cymbals, no brass. You have the guitars, the mandolin, the piano, the harp. And of course all the strings: violins, violi, celli, bassi and all the woodwinds: the bassoons, the oboes, the flutes.
I didn’t want the score to be huge and bombastic. It had to belong to Guillermo’s Pinocchio, which is little stop motion puppets. And so I wanted the sound to be as if it was made in that village, like if the instruments were created in that village.