1 00:00:12,804 --> 00:00:15,024 We're here at Hulu today to screen 2 00:00:15,098 --> 00:00:18,058 a couple scenes from the pilot Little Fires Everywhere. 3 00:00:20,354 --> 00:00:23,614 This scientist works with some of the smallest animals 4 00:00:23,690 --> 00:00:25,650 to save one of the biggest animals. 5 00:00:31,365 --> 00:00:35,035 Today, DCappella is recording Eye to Eye from A Goofy Movie. 6 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:46,090 We're here at Hulu today to do something really cool. 7 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:49,421 We are going to screen a couple scenes 8 00:00:49,508 --> 00:00:52,798 from the pilot Little Fires Everywhere for Celeste Ng. 9 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:56,766 And Celeste wrote the novel that our adaptation is based on, 10 00:00:56,849 --> 00:00:59,019 and we're gonna get to see what she thinks. 11 00:01:06,567 --> 00:01:08,687 The show is a one-hour drama 12 00:01:08,777 --> 00:01:11,987 about a picture-perfect family, the Richardsons, 13 00:01:12,072 --> 00:01:15,782 and what happens when this mother-daughter duo move into town 14 00:01:15,868 --> 00:01:17,698 and kind of upend their lives. 15 00:01:18,078 --> 00:01:20,708 I'm a bit late but we're hurrying and we're gonna see 16 00:01:20,789 --> 00:01:23,419 if we can find Celeste. 17 00:01:23,667 --> 00:01:25,417 - Hey! - Hi. 18 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:28,962 - This is the trailer. - You watching something? 19 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:30,629 I know! 20 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:33,636 - It looks amazing. - It's your show! 21 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:35,099 - It's our show. - I know. 22 00:01:35,179 --> 00:01:37,219 I know, it's incredible. 23 00:01:37,306 --> 00:01:39,266 I actually can't stop looking at it. 24 00:01:39,391 --> 00:01:41,771 I'm so excited to show you some of the pilot. 25 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:43,272 - I can't wait. - You wanna see it? 26 00:01:43,353 --> 00:01:45,403 - Yes. - Okay, good. Let's go. 27 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,820 - A little thing about work... - "Hulugans at work"? 28 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:49,400 So, they call themselves "hulugans," 29 00:01:49,484 --> 00:01:51,704 they celebrate holidays like "Huluween." 30 00:01:51,778 --> 00:01:56,658 There's a whole lingo here, it's very inside but it's fun. 31 00:01:56,742 --> 00:01:58,332 This is where all the food is. 32 00:02:04,041 --> 00:02:05,331 I feel like... 33 00:02:05,501 --> 00:02:07,001 - maybe this is a good spot. - Middle? 34 00:02:07,085 --> 00:02:08,295 Either here or here. 35 00:02:08,378 --> 00:02:10,338 Working with Liz was actually a real joy. 36 00:02:10,422 --> 00:02:14,132 I feel like she came in and got the heart of the project. 37 00:02:14,218 --> 00:02:15,718 She would come with ideas and say, 38 00:02:15,802 --> 00:02:18,722 "We're thinking about the character, "so what's their background?" 39 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:21,925 And I'd tell her about what I had envisioned for the character, 40 00:02:22,017 --> 00:02:23,557 she'd tell me what they thought, 41 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:25,654 and those two things dovetailed beautifully. 42 00:02:26,021 --> 00:02:28,191 Okay, I'm super excited about this. 43 00:02:28,273 --> 00:02:30,573 I know you haven't seen the finished product yet. 44 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:31,861 No, I haven't. 45 00:02:32,361 --> 00:02:33,531 Hit it, Johnny. 46 00:02:35,113 --> 00:02:38,703 We loved having these headlines of Shaker Heights, like modern day utopia. 47 00:02:38,784 --> 00:02:40,954 I love the props. That's a Shaker letter jacket. 48 00:02:41,078 --> 00:02:44,668 I love this fortune cookie that's tumbling by on fire, 49 00:02:44,748 --> 00:02:47,958 because readers will understand what it means in the story. 50 00:02:48,669 --> 00:02:50,499 This is my first book that's been adapted, 51 00:02:50,587 --> 00:02:53,127 so going into it, I wasn't sure what to expect. 52 00:02:53,215 --> 00:02:56,465 And my friends who are also fiction writers were like, "Are you nervous?" 53 00:02:56,593 --> 00:02:59,303 I really thought about it and the answer was no, 54 00:02:59,388 --> 00:03:01,718 because I really trusted the team that we had. 55 00:03:03,767 --> 00:03:06,187 We loved this scene from the book. 56 00:03:06,311 --> 00:03:08,691 This culminating moment at the end of Act 4, 57 00:03:09,398 --> 00:03:12,858 which is kind of building for the height of conflict. 58 00:03:12,943 --> 00:03:14,953 When we shot it and cut it together, 59 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:17,818 we were like, "Are we really getting the full impact?" 60 00:03:22,452 --> 00:03:24,332 - Why isn't she playing? - I don't know. 61 00:03:24,413 --> 00:03:28,293 We were feeling like when we watched the first incarnation of the cut, 62 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:30,745 it wasn't landing as well. 63 00:03:30,836 --> 00:03:33,506 You didn't feel what "not a puppet" was really about. 64 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:36,510 So we actually went back and did some reshoots to earn it. 65 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:40,255 What we first did was we added a scene before this 66 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:44,765 where Elena comes into Izzy's room and Izzy's getting ready to go to the concert. 67 00:03:44,850 --> 00:03:45,930 What are you wearing? 68 00:03:48,687 --> 00:03:49,807 I'm gonna button it. 69 00:03:49,897 --> 00:03:52,937 No, just no. Where's the dress that I bought you last week? 70 00:03:53,025 --> 00:03:55,605 - Mom, please stop. It's not me. - Here, put this on. 71 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:58,614 Put on the dress and brush what's left of your hair. 72 00:03:58,697 --> 00:04:01,407 We had this idea where you felt like you could flashback 73 00:04:01,491 --> 00:04:03,411 inside Izzy's memory and her head, 74 00:04:03,493 --> 00:04:06,253 and so that's kind of the sequence we're building here. 75 00:04:06,330 --> 00:04:07,830 We're gonna see Izzy, 76 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:09,705 - a little bit of her back story. - Yeah. 77 00:04:10,459 --> 00:04:13,339 So you're seeing her pain in the bathroom. 78 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:17,303 The music starts, Izzy doesn't play. 79 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:21,258 Wait, what is she doing? 80 00:04:21,345 --> 00:04:23,255 Elena's not sure what's going on. 81 00:04:26,517 --> 00:04:30,977 And then we go back to her taking off this outfit that she worked so hard on 82 00:04:31,063 --> 00:04:34,783 and put on this dress that we saw Elena hand to her in an earlier scene. 83 00:04:42,032 --> 00:04:43,372 She's taking out a Sharpie. 84 00:04:45,285 --> 00:04:48,205 By having her do this, we're keeping the story alive in a way 85 00:04:48,288 --> 00:04:49,958 that it wasn't before. 86 00:04:50,916 --> 00:04:53,086 - Why isn't she playing? - I don't know. 87 00:04:53,210 --> 00:04:56,210 Finally, now she looks and we understand 88 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:59,926 where this "not your puppet" comes from, 'cause now we've seen the whole story. 89 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:03,715 I'm thrilled with the job you guys did. 90 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:07,934 I feel you took the book and took it two degrees 91 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:09,556 and you made it into something new. 92 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:11,103 And it's the analogy I keep saying. 93 00:05:11,186 --> 00:05:13,936 I told you before, it's like a cover song. 94 00:05:14,106 --> 00:05:16,816 You don't want a cover that's exactly the same as the old one. 95 00:05:16,942 --> 00:05:18,992 You wanna hear the melody that you love, 96 00:05:19,069 --> 00:05:21,909 you wanna hear all the things that touch you, 97 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:24,450 but you still want it to be something new. 98 00:05:24,533 --> 00:05:26,913 And I feel like that's what you all did 99 00:05:26,994 --> 00:05:28,834 and I'm so grateful to you for that. 100 00:05:28,912 --> 00:05:30,082 It makes me so happy. 101 00:05:37,588 --> 00:05:41,548 I'm Roy Conli, and I'm a five-year veteran of Disneynature. 102 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:45,545 I am here in Orlando today to talk with a scientist 103 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:48,309 who works with some of the smallest animals on Earth 104 00:05:48,390 --> 00:05:51,980 that may just save one of the biggest animals on Earth. 105 00:05:57,316 --> 00:06:01,486 As it happened, I came here to study elephant vocal communication. 106 00:06:01,570 --> 00:06:03,160 We learn a lot about wildlife here, 107 00:06:03,238 --> 00:06:05,738 which can be used for managing animals in the wild. 108 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:08,446 We learn from the wild how to care for animals here. 109 00:06:08,535 --> 00:06:10,405 I think it can be a mutually beneficial 110 00:06:10,495 --> 00:06:12,035 - relationship going forward. - Right. 111 00:06:12,414 --> 00:06:15,884 We use our labor and expertise to go into the field 112 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:18,456 and help on-the-ground conservation as well. 113 00:06:18,545 --> 00:06:21,625 So we send our Cast Members to places like Kenya 114 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:23,085 to do conservation work. 115 00:06:24,176 --> 00:06:28,506 I was lucky enough a couple years in to join the Elephants and Bees Project, 116 00:06:28,597 --> 00:06:30,597 which was started by Lucy King in Kenya. 117 00:06:31,808 --> 00:06:33,688 We are partnered with Disney. 118 00:06:33,769 --> 00:06:36,939 They've been instrumental in joining our team. 119 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:40,652 They've helped us do detailed research, not only in Disney's Animal Kingdom, 120 00:06:40,734 --> 00:06:42,324 but out in Kenya as well. 121 00:06:44,613 --> 00:06:49,333 The elephants in Kenya roam free, and they come across small farms. 122 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:53,909 And we're trying to stop elephants from breaking into small-scale farmland. 123 00:06:53,997 --> 00:06:55,327 With help from Disney, 124 00:06:55,415 --> 00:06:57,955 Save the Elephants started building beehive fences 125 00:06:58,043 --> 00:07:00,343 around these local farmers' crops. 126 00:07:00,671 --> 00:07:03,671 We're using this discovery that elephants are scared of bees 127 00:07:03,757 --> 00:07:06,087 to keep elephants out of the farms. 128 00:07:07,010 --> 00:07:10,100 Right there within sight is one of the farms with beehive fences? 129 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:12,770 That's Jennifer's farm with the beehive fence. 130 00:07:12,850 --> 00:07:14,100 It's about the bees. 131 00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:18,064 My entire Ph.D. is about bees, and bees are truly my passion. 132 00:07:20,607 --> 00:07:22,477 When I went down there most recently, 133 00:07:22,568 --> 00:07:24,898 we started the experiments and we got them going. 134 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:27,158 They build them and put them in the farms, 135 00:07:27,239 --> 00:07:29,619 and then hope that wild bees show up and make use of them. 136 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,700 - How does a bee bother an elephant? - It is kinda crazy, right? 137 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:35,116 Who would think elephants are afraid of bees? 138 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:38,625 There were these trees the elephants visited. 139 00:07:38,709 --> 00:07:41,879 They're big fellas, so they've destroyed almost all the trees. 140 00:07:41,962 --> 00:07:42,962 Except for a few. 141 00:07:43,046 --> 00:07:45,466 Conservationists were like, "Okay, what's up with that?" 142 00:07:45,549 --> 00:07:48,009 Some of these trees are safe. The Samburu tribesmen said, 143 00:07:48,093 --> 00:07:51,473 "There's beehives in those trees, and elephants are afraid of bees." 144 00:07:51,597 --> 00:07:54,597 Well, if elephants really are afraid of bees, 145 00:07:54,683 --> 00:07:56,353 then maybe, just maybe, 146 00:07:57,019 --> 00:07:59,059 we could use them as a natural deterrent. 147 00:08:00,272 --> 00:08:03,032 This is the fruition of all the research 148 00:08:03,108 --> 00:08:05,028 that Disney and Save the Elephants did. 149 00:08:05,152 --> 00:08:08,912 Lucy King, through a trial and error process built these beehive fences. 150 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:12,331 It's a man-made beehive, and they're colonized by wild bees. 151 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,790 Having these interlinked all the way around the farm 152 00:08:15,871 --> 00:08:17,461 really has a deterrent effect. 153 00:08:17,539 --> 00:08:20,919 And what happens is if an elephant tries to approach the farm from outside, 154 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:22,541 pushing into the farm, 155 00:08:22,628 --> 00:08:25,208 it actually causes all the beehives to swing. 156 00:08:25,297 --> 00:08:28,797 And it releases the bees, makes the elephants run away. 157 00:08:28,884 --> 00:08:32,054 The beehive fences are relatively cheap to build, 158 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:34,467 but they're also incredibly easy to maintain. 159 00:08:34,556 --> 00:08:37,056 The farmers are managing their own deterrent system. 160 00:08:37,142 --> 00:08:39,692 All they have to do is keep the post upright, 161 00:08:39,770 --> 00:08:42,860 keep the beehive hung nicely and look after the beehive. 162 00:08:43,065 --> 00:08:45,025 When I heard about the elephants and the bees, 163 00:08:45,108 --> 00:08:47,528 I thought, "You're missing a piece of the story." 164 00:08:47,611 --> 00:08:49,491 That's that you have bees next to farms. 165 00:08:49,738 --> 00:08:51,988 And so, we went there, we did a study and we found that 166 00:08:52,074 --> 00:08:53,994 significantly more pollen is being moved around 167 00:08:54,076 --> 00:08:55,986 in the farms with beehive fences than without. 168 00:08:56,078 --> 00:08:59,248 So, it's pretty awesome. The bees deter elephants, they get honey. 169 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:03,380 And now we're looking in to see if we can maximize their use 170 00:09:03,460 --> 00:09:05,420 - to increase the crops. - Crop flow. 171 00:09:07,381 --> 00:09:10,721 It all comes back to making life easier for the farmers. 172 00:09:11,093 --> 00:09:14,013 And at the same time co-existing with these big elephants 173 00:09:14,096 --> 00:09:16,096 - that are around. - Protecting elephants. 174 00:09:18,141 --> 00:09:21,311 I'm so proud of the conservation efforts that we're involved in. 175 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:26,940 Sustainability is such an important part of the world today 176 00:09:27,025 --> 00:09:29,435 and what we need to be paying attention to. 177 00:09:54,511 --> 00:09:55,971 - We'll go from the top. - Cool. 178 00:09:56,054 --> 00:09:57,144 - We'll do that. - Okay. 179 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:08,525 - Hey. Good morning. - Good morning. 180 00:10:08,692 --> 00:10:10,152 - Who do I get first? - Both. 181 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:11,775 Aw! 182 00:10:11,862 --> 00:10:15,282 So, today we're recording Eye to Eye from A Goofy Movie. 183 00:10:15,365 --> 00:10:18,985 It's a great pop tune. It's kinda that throwback mid-'90s boyband vibe, 184 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:22,207 and it's the 25th anniversary of A Goofy Movie. 185 00:10:24,124 --> 00:10:27,884 So the structure of DCappella is unlike your typical a cappella group. 186 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:32,421 Most of the groups you think of are four or five voices that are very similar. 187 00:10:32,508 --> 00:10:34,968 The concept behind DCappella is the opposite. 188 00:10:35,052 --> 00:10:39,012 Let's get people who are all rock stars, incredible singers in their own right, 189 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:42,847 and bring together seven very different voices and personalities. 190 00:10:42,935 --> 00:10:44,225 And we'll have a super group 191 00:10:44,311 --> 00:10:46,611 that's capable of singing in tons of different styles. 192 00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:51,028 DCappella kind of formed through a big audition process. 193 00:10:51,109 --> 00:10:52,779 There was a lot of callbacks and stuff, 194 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:54,201 but it happened very quickly. 195 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:57,659 We were all sitting in a circle, ready to do the last round of callbacks 196 00:10:57,741 --> 00:11:00,201 and they ended up telling us that we were in the group. 197 00:11:00,285 --> 00:11:02,955 Then we're like, "Oh. Okay." 198 00:11:03,038 --> 00:11:05,788 An hour later, they handed us a binder of music, 199 00:11:06,041 --> 00:11:08,091 and they were like, "We're gonna record an album." 200 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:10,670 And we're like, "Huh? What?" 201 00:11:10,921 --> 00:11:13,511 We've gotten so close really quickly. We had to. 202 00:11:13,590 --> 00:11:16,930 You know, we recorded an album two hours after meeting each other. 203 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:20,810 Okay, so I'm playing back the video from Monday... 204 00:11:21,181 --> 00:11:22,811 - Okay. - Of Eye to Eye. 205 00:11:22,891 --> 00:11:24,231 Awesome. Perfect. 206 00:11:26,478 --> 00:11:28,608 - Would you do it? - Here we go. 207 00:11:28,981 --> 00:11:30,401 I have a muffin in my mouth. 208 00:11:30,732 --> 00:11:34,072 One, two... One, two, three, four. 209 00:11:36,530 --> 00:11:37,530 Hey. 210 00:11:41,034 --> 00:11:44,964 Eye to Eye was really special for me. I love A Goofy Movie. 211 00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:48,288 The music is incredible. A great soundtrack. 212 00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:58,841 Kind of like that. 213 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:01,640 I'm sorry! 214 00:12:02,306 --> 00:12:05,556 We've only been working on Eye to Eye for a few days, honestly. 215 00:12:05,642 --> 00:12:08,652 Most of what we do is learning our individual parts on our own. 216 00:12:08,729 --> 00:12:11,859 When we come together, boom. You have to know your part. 217 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:14,400 Going into the key change, it'd be really cool 218 00:12:14,484 --> 00:12:17,494 if the girls did a synchronized riff into that key change. 219 00:12:17,571 --> 00:12:19,991 I think it would help us get the key change. 220 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:21,953 It would build better into the change. 221 00:12:22,034 --> 00:12:23,744 - Yeah. - It would be a nice build. 222 00:12:23,827 --> 00:12:26,827 So, the process behind creating a song, 223 00:12:26,914 --> 00:12:29,504 especially doing an a cappella, is one piece at a time. 224 00:12:29,583 --> 00:12:32,173 Being the bass, I'm part of the rhythm section with Antonio. 225 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:36,342 Antonio holds down the beats, and I'm the bass that aids him, 226 00:12:36,423 --> 00:12:39,593 to round out the bottom and to give all of our DCappella songs 227 00:12:39,676 --> 00:12:41,846 kind of that big bass-y hit that you want. 228 00:12:56,318 --> 00:12:59,818 For Eye to Eye, that drum beat is actually very particular. 229 00:12:59,905 --> 00:13:01,405 It's not... 230 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:07,079 It's this whole, like, syncopated drum pad type of thing. 231 00:13:07,162 --> 00:13:09,622 I'm trying to literally be a sequencer. 232 00:13:09,706 --> 00:13:11,876 A machine which is... 233 00:13:17,673 --> 00:13:19,553 I'm the alto in DCappella. 234 00:13:19,633 --> 00:13:23,103 The lowest part for the 3-part female stack. 235 00:13:23,178 --> 00:13:24,598 And I'm the newest member, yeah. 236 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,930 It's been a couple days so far. 237 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:32,806 A lot of this has been very, like, "Go, go, go, go." 238 00:13:32,896 --> 00:13:36,436 Today, we came in, we bash it out, we go note by note by note, 239 00:13:36,525 --> 00:13:39,105 and we're like, "Cool." And then we go and record it, 240 00:13:39,194 --> 00:13:43,494 change things around, like... It's an all-day process for just one song. 241 00:13:43,574 --> 00:13:45,414 I wanna hear what Orlando's gonna do. 242 00:13:45,492 --> 00:13:47,372 He makes really good choices 243 00:13:47,452 --> 00:13:51,082 on embellishing and ornamenting the melody. 244 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:52,674 Play it back. Play it back. 245 00:13:56,712 --> 00:13:58,302 - Ooh, okay, I like that. - Yeah. 246 00:13:58,380 --> 00:13:59,380 Dope. 247 00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:04,216 - Oh. Okay. - Yeah. 248 00:14:04,303 --> 00:14:07,603 Seeing this all come to fruition and how we've been able to take this song, 249 00:14:07,681 --> 00:14:10,681 put our own spin on it, being able to do all this stuff 250 00:14:10,767 --> 00:14:13,767 with a song that means so much to me is really, really cool. 251 00:14:13,854 --> 00:14:16,734 We are the ambassadors of the Disney Songbooks 252 00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:19,065 from 100 years ago up till now. 253 00:14:19,151 --> 00:14:24,361 And we get to reimagine them in an all a cappella, all vocal way. 254 00:14:24,448 --> 00:14:26,368 And that is an amazing thing. 255 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:29,490 And being able to do it with Disney is a dream. 256 00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:21,505 Dope. 257 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:23,298 - Yeah, that's it. - That's how you do it.