I also liked the teaser, it could have featured Moana more, but we got more from the film than I was expecting, so I wasn’t disappointed. If I remember it correctly, the first half with Maui and the bits where Moana is a little girl are part of the two scenes shown at the last D23 Expo. I suppose these are some the few scenes they have in finished animation. The art direction looks great and I loved the traditional animation at the beginning too. I also think that Maui looks better in motion, both he and Moana look better in the actual film in my opinion.
That was actually the first trailer, the teaser trailer was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td9mmLc22U4. But I agree, all those teasers were better than this one.
According to the
article shared by Sotiris, Lin-Manuel Miranda composed the song alongside Samoan musician Opetaia Foa’i and Mark Mancina:
See that walking billboard in the teaser — which also includes an original song titled “We Know the Way” by Opetaia Foa’i, Lion King composer Mark Mancina, and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda — below.
But now I'm confused about who is doing what in the music department. I thought Mark Mancina was composing the score, Lin-Manuel Miranda was writting the songs and Opetaia Foa’i was contributing with some traditional music for the score or for some of the songs. But according to Opetaia Foa’i in
another article I found, he is composing the music for the songs and Lin-Manuel Miranda the lyrics:
I am the songwriter, Mark Mancina is writing the score, which I've been assisting him on because Disney realises everything has to be aligned to what I am coming up with. Then I have [lyricist] Lin-Manuel Miranda, who has done very well on Broadway recently with his smash hit Hamilton. It's quite an amazing team.
Does anybody know if that is true?
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