so its 1985 Marty MC Fly is traveling back in time in a DeLorean, Margret Thatcher is closing down mines and Norwegian pop group A-HA are taking the charts by storm with there ridiculously catchy tune "Take On Me" but would the song have been so popular without this Ground shattering Video?
The reason this video is so popular is simply because it is the first of its kind it uses a combination of pencil sketch animation and live action witch is called rotoscoping this animation type was completely original and mind-blowing this was before the sledge hammer video or CGI so people may have watched it just to see the interesting and new age graphics.This type of animation is done by sketching over live action footage, over 3000 frames where rotocoped which took 16 weeks to complete again proving that to have a successful Music Video a lot of time and effort must go into the production. The film is directed by Steve Baron and stars Morten Hacket the bands lead singer as our hero and Bunty Bailey as is female counterpart who is sucked into her comic strip by pencil drawn Morten Hacket and after being chased by a pair of villains they manage to escape into the real world were they are both live action in a final scene based on an American movie Altered States.
this Video one several awards including:
- best new artist
- best concept music video
- most experimental video
- best direction
- best special effects
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