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- Director Steve Barron shot and edited the video, where some of the segments were then drawn over by Patterson, while Reckinger did the mattes, creating a revolutionary rotoscope animated music video which took six months in total to make. The single was released in the US one month after the music video, and immediately appeared in the Billboard Hot 100 and was a worldwide smash, reaching No. 1 in numerous countries.
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Oct 9, 2020 · One was “Take On Me,” the A-ha video in which a woman (actress Bunty Bailey) gets yanked out of a café by lead singer Morten Harket and into a black-and-white animated realm where they fall...
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Director Steve Barron shot and edited the video, where some of the segments were then drawn over by Patterson, while Reckinger did the mattes, creating a revolutionary rotoscope animated music video which took six months in total to make.
Oct 26, 2015 · The music video took months to make. The group teamed up with director Steve Barron, who helmed Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," for a short-form piece that mixed live action with...
- Madison Vain
Sep 17, 2020 · A-Ha burst onto the music scene in 1985 with their incredibly catchy tune 'Take on Me', and it's still one of the greatest pop songs ever made. But what inspired the song and who made its iconic partly-animated video?
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- Fourth Time's A Charm
- Patience Rewarded
A-ha lead singer Morten Harket met bandmates Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy while all three were in their late teens. Furuholmen and Waaktaar-Savoy had already formed a group, Bridges, when Harket joined up. During one session, Furuholmen played the hook of what would eventually become “Take on Me” on the piano. After several years of ham...
At this point, many groups—and their producers—would have accepted the fact that their song was not resonating with audiences. But Ayeroff felt differently. For one thing, he perceived Harket to be a very handsome man who was ideally suited for the image-conscious MTV era. For another, he knew a dynamic video could capture the public’s imagination....
The many months of effort paid off. When the rotoscoped version of “Take on Me” debuted on MTV in 1985, it became a sensation, helping the single hit the topspot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. MTV bestowed 11 Video Music Awards nominations on the song, of which it won eight. (A-ha no-showed the ceremony, though, opting to play a gig in Houston ins...
May 18, 2022 · The phrase ‘viral video’ was non-existent when Steve Barron started making the promo for then-unknown Norwegian band A-ha’s Take on Me. Today, it’s clocked up more than a billion views on YouTube – despite the fact it was released nearly 40 years ago in 1985, and was created using an animation style that came to prominence in the 1920s.
Feb 20, 2020 · A-ha’s 1985 music video for ‘Take On Me’ has hit 1 billion views on YouTube. An iconic example of rotoscoped animation, the video was directed by Steve Barron and animated by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger (who won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects in a Video for this work).
