In 1983, the sticky song "Take on Me" successfully stormed the charts in her native Norway, but had no success on the world market. Steve Barron, who shot the video for this track, changed the situation. The director used the innovative at the time technique "Rotoscoping" - combined filming and animation. For four months, the artists made 3000 pencil sketches and turned them into a cartoon.
https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914[a-ha - Take On Me (Official Music Video)](https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914)
The work paid off in full - the video brought A-ha first place on the Billboard chart. The romantic story drawn by Morten Harket continued in the band’s next clip, "The Sun Always Shines on TV". Steve Barron, by the way, made half a dozen more videos for A-ha, but they are, in my opinion, far less interesting.
The illustrations are used in agreement with the Depositphotos photobank
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