AICE Media Studies Project

     This article/interview on storm chaser Mike Theiss is from an issue of 'Weatherwise'. It has an interview-based format expressed by bold text heading each paragraph posing questions that allow Mike Theiss to inform the reader about his job. If I were conducting an interview, this would be the format I'd use since it's more concise than 'Q:' followed by 'A:', separates main ideas so readers can efficiently gather the information they decide they want at a glance, and encourages a structure in responses rather than one stream of words that might be hard to sort out or comprehend in context. Possible disadvantages to this information layout are the limits on what the interviewed can express due to their inability to decide their own questions, which I would attempt to allow in the creation of an interview, and the editing process that doesn't necessarily guarantee that all that Mike Theiss' was able to say was shared either.       This appears ...

     I could not find a table of contents for the June-August 2006 issue of "Weatherwise", but I found one for an issue published in/for 1977, which was fairly basic and old-fashioned (having being printed in black ink from a typewriter). Above it lay the title, slogan, those who made the magazine, their address, phone number, issue number, and issue date, which is information I didn't think about but probably still won't include in the table of contents.       They have an article title centered left, with its authors indented and hyphenated below, all sitting atop a dotted line with a page number centered to the right of them. While crediting the authors would be a good idea, and I'd probably do that here in addition to in the articles, I would be the one writing them in my magazine, which doesn't require any credit more than once. The simple format of this table of contents is probably one of the better methods to create expectations of serious and ...

     This "Weatherwise" issue features one of the most infamous sequences of weather events to ever occur in the modern history of meteorology - the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The cover is neat, both in my opinion and its use of space, having a presumed article's title referencing the picture and its caption. The font is neither bland nor obnoxious, which is what I'd go for to create a sense of professionalism while sustaining interest. Beneath, article topics are given in a simple list format, which I'd like to implement with a seemingly (from what I can tell) unconventional directly horizontal list format.     The picture captures the struggle between man and nature astoundingly well, because pictures rarely get to show a strong storm directly impacting a person; maybe a tornado grinding a road into dust beside fallen trees, or a house atop a flood are seen, but the clarity and imminent danger this likely real image presents convinced me that this ma...

     I planned the portfolio for my magazine by choosing a genre I was rather knowledgeable about and interested in, which likely wouldn't and ultimately didn't yield many notably popular or long-lasting sources. However, I had experience reading weather articles from books and websites, which had a picture-text symbiosis that never ran out of visual depictions of weather. In that regard, the idea has limitless potential and few boundaries, so creativity likely won't be a challenge of this magazine. The research, however, will be intensive and likely needs to be credited, and gaining information from interviews will be as difficult as usual.      The magazine is not meant to alienate non-weather nerds/enthusiasts, which would be easy to do (by presenting information mostly in a factual and interesting rather than purely statistical way), except for the lack of local or even general regional daily and weekly forecasts due to unlikely accuracy in forecasts is...

Genre 1: Videogames: Nintendo Power  Nintendo Power would likely yield video game promotion for Nintendo games and possibly carry ads for others as well, but even then, any given issue's tone would probably be kid-friendly. It would make the magazine likely more interesting if it contained insider information of games' development, and/or celebrated old games and their developers. Genre 2: Soccer: Late Tackle  Late Tackle might include information on the salaries, victories, defeats, stresses, resignations, etc. of players in major leagues, but it could have a greater worldwide appeal if it also allocates pages towards non-European nations' leagues as well as the international stage. However, fans of relatively minor leagues likely wouldn't read that magazine for information or amusement on those leagues' teams anyway, so attempting to include every soccer league (unless just focusing on the U.S.) would be necessary and therefore unexpected/unanticipated. Genre 3: L...