INTRODUCTION Paramore is an alternative rock band which includes

lead singer Hayley Williams, Josh Farro lead guitarist, Jermey davis as the bass guitarist and Zac Faroo as the drummer.

Their album ’Riot’ was released on 2007 which was their first breakthrough with their single ‘Misery Business’ is, according to Williams, "more honest than anything I've ever written, and the guys matched that emotion musically."

Riot entered the Billboard 200 at number 20, the UK charts at number 24, and sold 44,000 its first week in the United States.

Paramore was featured on the cover of February 2008 issue of Alternative Press magazine and voted "Best Band Of 2007" by the readers.

Following their success with "Riot!", Paramore were signed by director of "Twilight" to write songs for the movie soundtrack. They worked on two theme songs, one of which was titled "Decode" and deals with anger and outrage that are experienced by the main characters in the movie.

Paramore didn't wanted to shown as a regular popular band but something which people can relate to and express themselves through their albums.

FRONT COVER

The bold orange text makes the album stand out. The font which has a roughed out ‘Scratched’ style showing the rock genre of the band.The orange coloured text highlights band information and the artists promotion company clearly. Keeping to the consistent genre of the front cover and signfuing the albums genre.

The central image of the band is the albums main focus point and makes you look at it, along with the title making it stand out. This picture is taken from a high angle making the band look up as if they are adressing to a higher power with linking their title ‘Riot’ as to create chaos. The title links with the image as to overthrow that significant power , and to just let go of themselves.

The page is full of words and writing to give the piece a rough and urban feel , showing its genre which the audience can associate with quickly.

The repetition of the title ‘Riot’ around the page makes the name easily remembered. It also provides a simple yet effective background that is colourless making the orange of the title and band information stand out, which is a very effective technique. The typography also creates chaos, which signifies anger , frustration and basically the feeling to rebel , which is what the title says ‘Riot’. The title and the cover itself links itself and gives a very clear message , as to overpower a significant power.

The whole front cover gives a feel of a chaotic mess, in which they try to get their frustrations out.

BACK COVER

The large image on the back makes it recognizable its a paramore album. Since this picture is shot in human view at eye level , this shows that the band is addressing to their fans or audiences with which they have a more friendlier gesture. Which contrasts with their image on the front cover which shows more anger,

The production credits are put into simple, plain writing to signify the importance of this information. It is controversial to the rest of the pannel and makes it more relevant and important.

The title names in bright orange to contrast with dark black background and make the key information stand out. But the song timings are not included.

INSIDE COVER

Inside pages with information displays main song lyrics such as ‘Thats what you get’ and ‘Misery business’ the most successful singles from the album. It also shows a picture of each band members and the lyrics and set around them. .

It also has credits to the producer and to whom the band would like to thank, to whom they are grateful for making their album possible.

It also uses the same ‘scratched’ font and has the same rock feel.

The font of the inside pages shows no real information again just highlights the ‘Riot’ font and uses this as background. It however does include the record label and band information

CD COVERThe title’Riot’ is in the same scratchy writing with a plain background which gives it more boldness and effect. It gives more impact on the viewer. The title is written with even more frustration, since this is inside CD cover it shows inner turmoil.

SPINE

Band and albums names only things shown on spine of digipak. It has plain black with white text to make it stand out. ‘Riot’ is still however shown in the scratched on effect to work with the majority of the pieces font styles and band name is in the usual logo font.

However the ‘fueled by ramen’ the record company however is also shown onthe left hand side with the cd’s id number is displayed in the top righthand corner.