A Wild Idea
Normally, music videos would take a week to shoot in a hangar. But for this one, they spent a whole day that was designated to making the comic magazine. Then there were an additional four months of doing hand-made drawings. It was very thorough. And thorough might just be an understatement. In fact, the illustrator, Mike Patterson, came up with over 3,000 sketches for the final product.
Source: genius.com
Funnily enough, there was a point in time where it seemed like nobody, from any generation, would ever get to see the clip for “Take on Me.” In fact, the music video almost didn’t get made at all. It all started with Steve Barron’s wild idea to cast the A-ha’s Norwegian heartthrobs as comic-book moto-racers.