You are all cordially invited to the World Premiere of my first ever BBM Music Video!
"Renouncement".
By definition "renouncement" means "to be resigned to, to give up or refuse". Towards the end of Jack and Ennis's 20 year relationship it was clear that Jack had become resigned to the fact that he could never BE with Ennis in the way he dreamed of ("I did once"). Their final scene together at the Lake was a turning point in Jack's heart. As he stood there looking out into the mountains...his mind raced with memories of his love for Ennis, thus begins my vision for "Renouncement".
A couple years ago I came across an instrumental CD called "Solace" by Michael Hoppe. Upon my first listen, I was deeply moved by the cinematic quality of this composition (Renouncement).
The video is a collaboration between me and my "brokie" friend/video artist Katie. I sent her the CD along with a "scene by scene" storyboard set to the timing of the composition. Using her amazing editing talents, she has brought that vision to life in a manner that exceeded all my expectations! Since this is an instrumental piece we contemplated keeping some dialogue in, but in the end we both thought the composition spoke so clearly to the emotional core of our vision, we decided it would work best to let the music do the "talking".
With all due respect to Gustavo, what if BBM was scored as an epic love story? Perhaps this may be close to that "what if". My vision was to capture the intimate, yet sweeping romanticism of Jack and Ennis's relationship against the backdrop of nature's epic beauty.
I hope you enjoy and look forward to your comments.
Michael (Mike)
Click on YouTube link below, click on "pause" and allow the video to load 100% then click "play".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJsCQ-0Kyw
