Paul Moss
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What would the score be for that?
Probably a quarter of that.
The Avatar movies are a huge technical achievement, full of cutting-edge visual effects and performance capture techniques.
But Simon Franklin says that the director, James Cameron, insists everything the audience sees and hears is created by humans.
And I said, no.
He said, we're not putting any real musicians out of work.
I said, no.
He said, because it's really important to me that these are real musicians.
This is part of what gives that music that organic feeling that I want.
At what point did you start writing the music?
The first cues I wrote in February 2018.
We meet the wind traders in Avatar Fire and Ash.
They have a hoedown on their enormous galleon.
The hoedown has to have a piece of music in it.
We see it on the screen.
The problem was, what do they play?
Because it's not animation, it's performance.
You have to have a real instrument that would be designed for three meter high blue people with four fingers.
So I sketch out instruments.
The art department make these beautiful 3D designs.