A-ha’s Butterfly Butterfly The Last Hurrah by Steve Barron
Jimmy Brown - 8th Sept 2010
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that. "I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one. "We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other. "The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'". Watch: <a href="http://www.mrsgrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/AhaC14DNxHD.mp4" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that.
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that. "I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one. "We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other. "The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'". Watch: <a href="http://www.mrsgrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/AhaC14DNxHD.mp4" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
"I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one.
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that. "I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one. "We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other. "The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'". Watch: <a href="http://www.mrsgrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/AhaC14DNxHD.mp4" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
"We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other.
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that. "I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one. "We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other. "The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'". Watch: <a href="http://www.mrsgrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/AhaC14DNxHD.mp4" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
"The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'".
"It was really nice to work with A-ha again, especially as I had not made a music video for such a long time. When Magne got in contact he said it was about completing the circle, and as 'Take On Me' had been the start for them. this really felt like just that. "I wanted to create a really emotional film to accompany the sentiments of the track. To hopefully bring a tear to the eye from, especially, the fans. We shot under a fly-over near Brighton that had three roads leading off in different directions and I asked Morten, Pal and Mags to embrace, get close, almost uncomfortable and then silently say goodbye. It was certainly very powerful on the day. It seemed to sum up how much they had been through together and still stayed as one. "We intercut some of the old videos I had made for A-ha in the eighties, and to give a contemporary feel we tracked some of the sketchy images onto the concrete wall that then looked almost Banksy-esque. We used the contra zoom to get the atmosphere, also the physical sense of the band's movement away from each other. "The stop frame animation towards the end was done by a young talented animator Stefan Ramirez, who's student film I had spotted on the web. He worked really hard to achieve what we wanted on a comparatively low budget. So, too, did all the team at Mrs Grey who produced the video, especially my son Oliver Barron, who was poignantly a one-year-old when we made 'Take on Me'". Watch: <a href="http://www.mrsgrey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/AhaC14DNxHD.mp4" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
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Jimmy Brown - 8th Sept 2010
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Steve Barron
- Producer
- Oliver Barron
- Line Producer
- James Youngs
- Production Company
- Mrs Grey
- Executive Producer
- Richard A. Moore
- Production Manager
- Harry Serjeant
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Trevor Forrest
Art
- Art Director
- Aaron Bevan
Wardrobe
- Stylist
- Clementine Charity
- Make-up
- Sarah Cherry
Grading
- Colourist
- David Yardley
Commission
- Commissioner
- Hermione Ross
Misc
- 2nd unit director
- Mike Simpson
Jimmy Brown - 8th Sept 2010