As part of our planning for our digipak we have drawn and annotated a mock-up for our digipak, this will help us when we are taking the pictures as we will know exactly what we are going for. However we understand that these may change because of the way the pictures are taken.

We have decided to use edgy metaphorical images in order to keep with the genre of Alternative Rock. We have also chosen the album name ‘We are broken’ which is after another song in the album, we felt this most represented the themes of the whole album. This is an example of media language as the name encodes a deeper meaning that is heard in their music. The preferred reading for our digipak is that the covers encode isolation and the theme of being broken, this is the metanarrative we have created for the star image. We chose these designs because they reflect the themes in Paramore’s music. We liked the idea of keeping with dark colours with splashes of red in across all of our products, with the red encoding passion and danger common themes in our genre, therefore this adds to the star image for the band.

These illustrations are shown below.