This one was a very special commission. Imagine my surprise when I got asked to do a tribute video... for Mercedes Lackey, and her characters Belladonna Aura and Zach Marlowe.
We chatted extensively about what she wanted, hammered out a script based on the storyline she'd given me, and then she cut me loose. "Make me cry," she said. Well, I think she did.
The end of Bella and Zach's story was forced upon Mercedes by COH's closure, and for two creative spirits, this was a heartbreaking event for us both. Still, out of sorrow comes something of meaning. I am privileged and grateful that I was able to make this for her, thus preserving a story that might otherwise have been lost.
The music, as chosen by Mercedes, is VNV's "Illusion."
http://youtu.be/FXv7Da0ueso?hd=1*****
Something of interest - when VV first sent me the script, she said she wanted me to use VNV Nation's "Illusion." I, however, just could not read the script without hearing another song as the music. So I recut the video to a different track as well.
She said, "Hell, upload them both."
So I did. This one uses "Sleep" by Poets of the Fall.
http://youtu.be/T8S0GMdpK-U?hd=1Michelle
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