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Caption Text of Pictures
Caption Text of Pictures
of Pictures
CAPTION
“Captionis a brief description that identifies a
picture, video, table or graph”
FUNCTION
To tell the viewer or reader about what’s
happening in the picture, video, table or graph
Picture
Caption
Kinds of Caption
IDENTIFICATION
1. BAR
Who is someone in the picture 4. EXPANDED 5W1H
In the expanded caption there are
5W1H and complete sentence
2. CUTLINE
Who is the person and what’s
happening
5. QUOTE
Inspiring words for other people
GROUP
3. SUMMARY 5W
There is 5W in the summary
6. IDENTIFICATION BAR
The photo or video contains several
people not just 1 person
caption
Generic Structure of a Caption