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For me it is refreshing to sort of move around stylistically and working on different genres. This is much more of a family film, inspirational, motivational movie and lot more tonal. I relied heavily on indigenous hawaiian music as inspiration. When I first saw the movie, ít's really about this girl that is brought up in Hawaii. She's Hawaiian, Hawaiian parents and she's a surfer there. The movie shot in Hawaii for most of it, except little part where she goes to Thailand. But even there she brings the spirit of Hawaii with her. The one thing that I picked up on first time seeing the movie was that the temp music they had didn't reflect any of this spirit of Hawaii. If I could do anything as a composer it would be to ingrain some of that into the film. Because I think that would give it the dimension that it needed. So it turned out we just built the studio and the fire captain at the station down below, his wife actually taught Hulu. They had whole collection of musicians that we first listened to, we had some CDs that I listened to of just really traditional chants that had been around for a long time. That was when I started thinking "Wow, it would be so cool to incorporate this into the movie." I had him come up and bring some of the hawaiian percussionists and chanters and met some really great people and really learnt a lot about the hawaiian musical culture. Again, that's the best kind of project for me, where I am learning as I go. | |||||||||||||||||
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