Being a huge 80s fan, I like to see what the videos were like in comparison with the modern day. I think that this video by a-ha has a great concept and seems very advanced for the era. Take on me was released in 1985 and sold 500,000 copies in the UK. The video also required a lot of effort in making. The band was actually put in touch with Mike Patterson - an animation artist from Warner Brothers in Los Angeles. He drew each of the different frames and used the rotoscope technique to build the image. This is where the drawings are constructed over live action frame by frame. Mike drew over 3,000 drawings for this video and the song and video were a great hit, especially in the US where it was played on MTV for a year.
I like this video because it combines reality with sketch. It is interesting to watch and it fascinates me to think that these sorts of techniques were used in the 80s. Although watching the video you can see it is from the 80s, it is still a video I would expect to see in the modern day. I like that this video is abstract in the fact that it is not something you would expect to see and I think the animation of the video has helped to make the narrative more interesting.
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