The music video which really intrigued me was 'Take On Me' by A-Ha. The video was produced in the 1980's (before i was born) but when i first watched it i was perplexed by how it told it's story.
Unfortunately the video did not allow me to embed but i do have a link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
The favourite thing for me in this video is how they fused the real world with the comic world.
It began with drawings from a comic and it was the first time i had seen something like this so it had struck me. But what got me was when the video introduced the comic world into the real world.
The picture shows a hand coming out from the comic a girl is reading to invite her into the comic book. The originality and flair i saw in this video really excited me and it grabbed my attention.
Even though the video shows a couple of shots with the band performing i think the video is mainly story based. It begins in an American diner where a girl is drawn into a comic. The two protagonists (the male and female characters) are then interrupted by a couple of villains but fight them off after the male character allows the female to go back to her world. The male character then follows her after defeating the villains.
Most of the video portrays this story.
I think the most effective part of the video was when the camera was facing the female who was on one side of the panel and it showed her as if she were in the real world. Although the other side of the panel showed the comic world. The camera then moves nearly 180 degrees facing the male character showing the male as a real world figure and the female as a comic figure. This effect is done really well and could symbolize that nothing can keep these two apart, not even realities.
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