Artist - a-ha
Director - Steve Barron
Producer - Simon Fields
The first release of "Take On Me" in 1984 includes a completely different recording, and was featured in the first video, which shows the band singing with a blue background. The second video was directed by Steve Barron, and filmed at Kim's Café (now called " Savoy " cafe )and on a sound stage in London, in 1985. The video used a pencil-sketch animation / live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced-over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete
The video's main theme is a romantic fantasy narrative. It features one of the band members in a comic inviting a girl into the story where they are chased by men. The girl is allowed to escape the comic but misses her cartoon friend. He manages to escape by banging on the sides of the comic until he falls into reality.
Wikipedia - Take On Me
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