Magazine Analysis: Specific Genre - 2-Page Spread (01/31/22)

    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 to be of a series of interviews dubbed 'onthejob', as clarified by the sharp contrast between the yellow and orange text on a complimentary blue background and the black and white text/background. Any title for these articles won't be in the same style as another, but while they'll have to stand out from other titles, I'd also like them to compliment and contrast the page at the same time; having their own identity/territory on the page as well as not appearing out of place. Any article will also likely have pictures and a caption, spaced slightly apart from the text to distinguish it, and the pictures also need to contrast with the background to avoid a consistently dark tone. A horizontally/vertically fading background could circumvent this issue, as could pictures that have both a light and dark-colored focus (such as the rain/outside contrasting with the palm trees/inside) of the images above.