Digipak - Paramore Riot

The front of the album is indicative of the genre. It features a picture of the entire band, not just the lead singer as many pop covers do, and it appears to have a sketchbook appearance, like doodles. However looking closer at it you can tell it is just the name of the album over and over again. Added to this it also has the names of who wrote the songs as well as the year it was made. The name of the album is Riot, which is written in the scribble font largely over the sketchbook appearance of the band. The "photo" of the band is high-angle, making the importance less on the image than the name of the album, the music itself. Added to this the colours used are black and white with orange. Orange is usually the colour of the lead singer's hair and fans of the music will know this and will link this colour to the band itself. The front of the album also features a sticker stating the singles of the album and a link to the band's website, a use of convergence.

The back of the album continues the theme of sketchbook font and the use of contrasting. It also again has an image of the band in black and white. The names of the songs are in the orange font, however instead of being set out in a list they are in the scribble font giving the appearance that someone just wrote the thoughts in their own head with out thought of structure. This fits the genre of the music of the album as it is not part of the mainstream music and can then therefore be more experimental with it's cover. The font also follows the shape of the image of the band's heads.

The fact that the image is just of their heads shows that they want their image to be shown more clearly to their fans. It contrasts however with someone like Pixie Lotts cover as despite the headshots the focus is meant to be on the names of the songs.

The lyric book continues the theme of the band images, the black and white and the sketch-like image of the writing. This is reinforced with the fact there have been words "crossed-out" as well as doodles "drawn", similarly in the way people will actually make notes. It is most likely indicative of the lead singer's own songwriting notebook, as she is the songwriter of the songs, and is meant to look to the audience as if it is more personal and more about the music and a band than just a singer that is often presented in a mainstream artist's digipak.

The final part of the digipak is still along the lines of contrasting colours and sketchbook. It is a thank you page with an individual message from each member of the band as well as a smaller note stating the producers and the like involved. This was most likely put here to make it feel more personal to the fans and to demonstrate that the band themselves are real people, as the image of celebrity seems to disconnect the person from the image.