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Caption text

Miss Rinda
https://youtu.be/BIg39wMblTY
Table of context
Defenition
Of caption How to write
text

Generic A note to
structure remember

Languange Types of
features caption
Defenition
Caption text is a short text that is used to
complement an image. Caption text appears
usually under images, photos, graphics, posters
and even tables.
Generic structure
● The title
● The lead
● Section Heading
Language
Features
• simple present tense
• Do not begin with the word a,an, or the
• Use direct speech or quoted speech
How to Write Caption?
Observe the selected photo
or video (Observasi foto
01 atau video yang telah
dipilih)

Find out the message from the


02 picture (Cari pesan yang ingin
disampaikan dari gambar)

Write concise phrase or


03 sentence under the picture
(Tulis frasa atau kalimat di
bawah gambar)
A Note to Remember !
1. Hindari penggunaan articles: a, an, atau the.
2. Gunakan present tense.
3. Caption memberikan pejelasan yang tidak
ditemukan di gambar
4. Caption itu melengkapai gambar bukan
pengganti gambar
5. Tidak perlu diawali dengan nama
6. Tidak perlu menambah sesuatu yang sudah
jelas, seperti: pictured here, above.
7. Boleh sebutkan nama jika memang benar-benar
perlu.
Types of Captions

Summary
Identification bar Cutline
This type of caption gives a full
This type of caption only This type of caption simply explanation of who is in the picture, what
explains who the person is explains who the person is they are doing, when it happened, where it
in the picture. and what they are doing. happened, and why it happened.

Expanded
This is more complete than a Group Identification Quote
summary, sometimes it also includes Almost the same as the caption Contains a quote of
how it happened and there are identification bar, usually used someone's words related to
quotes. for images that contain more the image
than 1 person
EXAMPLE
CAPTION
TEXT
Identification bar

MARS
Despite being red,
VENUS Mars is a cold place

Venus has a beautiful


name
Cutline
— Summary
EXPANDED
GR0UP IDENTIFICATION
QUOTE

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