PHOTO CAPTIONS WRITING Photo captions A Syrian woman with her child at the port of Piraeus Greece also known as cutlines are a few lines of text used to explain or elaborate ID: 460507
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GUIDELINES
PHOTO CAPTIONS WRITINGSlide2
Photo
captions
A Syrian woman with her child at the port of Piraeus, Greece.
(
also
known as
cutlines
)
are
a few lines of text used to explain or elaborate
on
published photographsSlide3
Readers look at a photograph first,
then
the caption under the photo
.If the caption intrigues them
by providing context and background information
, readers will look back at the photograph and see something new.
It's
called the loop,
and
their next stop is the
story
.
Rob
MeltonSlide4
Captions
should
make
people
look back at the
picture,complete the picture,
extend
the
basic
story
,
give
readers
information
they
cannot
get
from
just
looking
at
a
photo
,
not
repeat
information
contained
in
the
headline
,
not
tell
what
the
picture
has
made
obvious
,
give
the
facts
so
readers
can
decide
for
themselves
what
the
feelings
or
emotions
are.Slide5
Writing
photo
captionsShorter
is better.The
first sentence to be written is
in
the
present
tense
and
tells
the
reader
what
is
happening
in
the
photo
.
Subsequent
sentences
tell
the
context
and
background
for
what
happened
and
they
use
past
tense
.
Include
as
many
of
the
who
,
what
,
when
,
where
,
why
and
how
.
Always
identify
the
main
people
in
the
photo
.
Avoid
making
judgments
.
Avoid
using
terms
like
„
is
shown
,
is
pictured
, and
looks
on“.
Quotes
should
be
interesting
and
not
just
facts
.Slide6
Placing
captions
Taken
from
: http://www.magazinedesigning.com/what-to-do-with-picture-captions/Avoid positioning picture captions above the picturesSlide7
Placing
captions
Taken
from
: http://www.magazinedesigning.com/what-to-do-with-picture-captions/When placing picture captions on the sides of the pictures use “sticky edges”.Slide8
REFRENCE
http://
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/02/how-many-refugees-uk-take-migrant-crisis-europe-yvette-cooper
http://www.magazinedesigning.com/what-to-do-with-picture-captions
/http://nwscholasticpress.org/2012/09/30/follow-these-simple-techniques-to-write-the-perfect-caption-every-time-to-intrigue-inform-readers-2
/http://web.ku.edu/~edit/captions.html