Beautiful Noise features extracts from over 50 interviews with members of various bands, as well as "special appearances" from The Flaming Lips' vocalist–guitarist Wayne Coyne, Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins and Robert Smith of The Cure.

[2] In addition to interviews, Beautiful Noise includes never-before-seen footage, television appearances, music videos and tour projections of the film's featured bands.

[3] Beautiful Noise was written and directed by Eric Green, produced and edited by Sarah Ogletree and presented by their studio company HypFilms.

[7] As a result, Green and Ogletree began a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise finances to cover licensing of the music featured in the film, as well as clearances and distribution.

Multiple edits of the film featured archival footage with "personally custom designed art" which was the result of collaborations with artist Angus Cameron.

Green and Ogletree attempted to find a distributor, however, several factors—including the expense of music clearance and licensing, the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the general decline in DVD sales—prompted "an ever-elusive" release date.