Research on the band

This is the band Garbage who sings the song we have choosen to do our music video "silence is golden".

The band themselves have been around since 1995 and have released 5 albums over the last 14 years with there last album being released in 2007 titled "Absolute Garbage". The track we have choosen is from there album "Beautiful Garbage" which was released in 2001.

Lyrics:

If I am silent then I am not real

If I speak up then no one will hear

If I wear a mask there's somewhere to hide

Silence is golden

I have been broken

Safe in my own skin

So nobody wins

If I raise my voice

Will someone get hurt?

And if I can't feel then I won't get touched

If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide

Silence is golden

I have been broken

Safe in my own skin

So nobody wins

Did you hear me speak

Do you understand

Did you hear my voice

Will you hold my hand

Do you understand me

Won't someone listen

Nobody gets in

My body's a temple

But nothing is simple

Silence is golden

I have been broken

Something was stolen

Safe in my own skin

Postcard

Garbage members

The band consists of Scottish vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duck Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 14 million units. Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl". Their debut album, Garbage, was an unexpected smash, selling over 4 million copies and certified double platinum in the UK , USA and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Award.

Q3-49 Music Video Mood Board

Some of the ideas and inspiration we had to get us started in brainstorming for our music video to Garbage's silence is golden came from the band paramore as seen in our mood board. We also had ideas of creating a house party / club setting like the tv series skins. The song is quite dark so we have pictures including graffiti and dark alley ways. We also found an image of the actual bands lead singer.

Our Music Pitch

The song we have chosen to do a music video to is Garbage's "Silence is golden". The song itself has a very rock and punk type of feel to it with some very dramatic changes in tempo. With this in mind we want to keep the style of the video very simular to the style of the song with a narrative and scenes of the band playing through out.
Some of our ideas so far have included scenes of packed night clubs and back streets with very low lighting to try and give it the dark busy feel. We have put these images on a mood board with pictures of mosh pits and club lighting to give a more visual feel of what we are aiming for.
We have also included the band Paramore as a big inspiration of ours as they have a strong narrative of a bitchy girl in high school which match the lyrics. We also like the close ups and use of the band playing. The band setting its a very simple background but it still looks very effective which then lead us to look at graftie in our video adding to our

Here is the music video for Paramore's Misery Business:




We like the bright colour's the band wear in contrast to the black and white background that they are performing in. Also a big contrast is the dark room of the performance to the very light high school setting which makes the cuts seem very distinctive and then the merge of the band and the characters at the end acts at the end of the narrative and ends the video its self very well.