Stone Temple Pilots have completed work on their fifth album, and their fans will have a bird's-eye view of the whole record-making process.

MTV reports the band invited a film crew to document the making of the album, which was done inside a rented house in the beachfront celebrity enclave at Malibu in California.

The film, which is modelled after The Beatles' "Let It Be," follows the construction of the songs from the writing process through to the final recording.

"It's got a lot of really beautiful, moody shots -- these art shots with either Dean or Robert playing an old organ in a really beautiful space, to Dean and Scott playing acoustic, to some totally awesome rock-out live stuff in the main recording space," director Chapman Baehler told MTV.

Baehler is a rock photographer who was working on a photo book about the band when they came up with the notion of documenting their work on the follow-up to 1999's album "No. 4," MTV said.

Work began on the album last January. The group is currently mixing the results.

Singer Weiland had said in various interviews that he felt the group could produce enough material for a double disc, but MTV said sources at the band's U.S. label, Atlantic, were unsure if a two-CD set would surface.