Discovering the
Power of Pictures
By Miss Luft
Yearbook Production
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In your folder you
should have:
• A magazine/newspaper photo
• A caption
– Jot down ideas about the story being told in
both your photo and your caption.
– Find your match.
What is the job of the
caption?
Caption Writing
• “Brittany Spears surprised a
crowd of 1,800 at the Palms
Casino’s Rain nightclub
when she showed up at 1
a.m. to give an unbilled
performance. During a brief
set the singer performed two
new songs from her
upcoming CD and showed
off a mysterious backside
message: ‘No BS.’”
•
People Magazine. September 29, 2004
• includes 5W’s
• factual
• good choice of
words
• complete sentences
• new information
• people identified
Get with your summer
partners and write
captions to each photo.
Look at the do’s and the
don’ts in your folder.