Photo

Caption
Captions Assignment
o All photograph in newspapers Type the following phrase in the
should have captions submission box for this

o Writing a caption is just as assignment

important as writing the story Ex: I have watched the video and
o Captions do not need to be only I am ready to try writing captions
one sentence in length
o Good captions are often 2-3
sentences Definition of photo
Good captions caption
First sentence
Photo caption is a tittle short
o Written in the present tense and
explanation or description
describes the action taking place
accompanying an illustration or a
in the picture
photograph
Second sentence

o May give additional description

Function of photo
or
o May give more information
abaout a person or item in the
caption
picture and move to past tense
Photo caption is use to
Third sentence
give readers a basic
o Normally a quote from someone information to understand
in the picture to photograph
 Rules of writing a photo caption
RULE 3 RULE 2

Caption are written Use present tense

in a complete on the first
sentence RULE 1 sentence

Supply specific information

(answering 5 WH-questions)

Who/what is that?

What is going on?

RULE 4 When did it happen ?

Where did it happen? RULE 5

Clearly identify the
people and location in Why did it happen? Identify the person
the photo from left to right
How did it happen?

How to write a caption

 Make a little of the photo
 Give a relavant information about the photo
 Write a photo credit

Punctuation in captions
 Captions begin with a capital letter
 Captions should not be in italics
 All sentences and any sentence fragments
should end with a period