Paul Moss

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.

So the prop master 3D prints these instruments, which we use as part of the score, but they're also played on screen.

Do they have names?

They are the stringy things and the drummy things.

Currently, I'm sure I should have come up with better names.

One of the main storylines in Avatar Fire and Ash is grief.

Jake and Neytiri, the two main characters, have lost their son.

Yeah.

And they react to that in very different ways and it drives a wedge in their relationship.

So where was Ava?