I have chosen to do a Q&A/interview style article with an acquaintance that happens to be an artist. It will be a sort of guided Q&A/interview, as there is going to be a topic at hand to discuss. This topic will be about what the interviewee considers to be art. Questions will be asked about her thoughts on the topic, and will also be asked to delve further into an answer that she gave. The structure will be more similar to a Q&A, in which the questions will be presented in a vastly different color or font (perhaps both). This is done to differentiate between the parts of each paragraph. Each one would feature three parts. The first part is the question asked, which is immediately followed by who asked the question, which is then followed by the interviewee’s answer. The author in the article also makes sure to list whoever is talking in the moment. Whenever someone asked a question, the article would state their name. Whenever one of the band members answered, their name would be placed before the answer. Like the differentiation between fonts and colors, this helps the reader avoid confusion by letting them know who is who in the situation. Placing names before answers is especially helpful during answers that include more than one person speaking, even more so when they interact with each other. Eventually, the author shortened the names of those who were speaking to their initials. This was done to conserve space for answers and to avoid making the reader read their names over and over again. Colloquial language was used throughout the entirety of the article. This was done to give each answer a conversational feel. It also gives the reader a more personal connection to whoever is answering the question, as it feels like the interviewee is speaking to them. The author also writes in their actions. An example of this would be how the author wrote pause in parentheses to signify that the speaker had paused their train of thought before continuing. There are 2 reasons as to why this was done. The first would be to give the reader an idea of how the interviewee is speaking, and the second would be to give the reader a mental image of the speaker while they answer the question.
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