Websites of artists


The weekend 

The weekend is a solo artist, this is shown through the solo photos of him. The dark images of these photos contradict the stereotypical light hearted images seen in the pop genre and reveal that the images reflect his music. The font which is a dark grey and is in bold is half on a white background  so it is easier to read and the use of tone on tone as half of it is on a black photo adds to the dark atmosphere the website is trying to create, this is emphasized as the text say " my dear melancholy" this is used to create an eery tone and suggests that the artist is acquainted with sadness. Bellow it is a music video that has the artist walking at nighttime, nighttime has connotations of darkness.

At the bottom of the home screen there are picture in which if someone zooms in it gets further and further into the different images. The images are vague and are either zoomed in ore are dark. The pictures are edited to have 



























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