This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer(s) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing tunes he had improvised on the piano.
Ker Chaplin ni bil izučen glasbenik, ni znal brati notnega zapisa in je potreboval pomoč profesionalnih skladateljev, kot so David Raksin, Raymond Rasch in Eric James, ko je pisal glasbene podlage.