Captions Text part 1

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A. Definition of Caption Text

   Caption is the text that appears or is below the image. In today's digital era, it is difficult to find captions, memes are a form of caption, because they display images with text. Caption consists of several descriptions of words or several sentences. sometimes in some pictures, such as captions, the words are not made by themselves, the name of the songwriter must be included.

   And it must be remembered that a good caption is the right caption to be positive, meaning to provide moral or motivational lessons to the reader, some even say this caption is similar to a poster, if the poster is a print media caption is usually available via electronic media or the internet.

   Captions are included in the type of text or genre, so caption writing must also have criteria. A good caption clearly identifies the subject of the image clearly, although not in too much detail, due to limited space for writing. It's not just good writing. It turns out that the quality of the image selection is also one of the caption requirements that we make interesting. Captions can be words, sentences, or phrases.

B. Good English Caption Writing Procedures

   A good caption as a complement to the explanation can be written in the following way:

1. Don't use article words like a, an, or the
2. As much as possible use Present Tenses so that the picture can be explained
3. Provide information to readers that cannot be obtained just by looking at pictures
4. There is a caption to complete the photo, not a substitute for the photo
5. Writing the caption does not have to start with the name
6. Write a caption to indicate the individual, can use the word "from left", NOT "from left to right".
7. No need to write clear words like “Above” and “pictured here”
8. Mention the name in the caption only if the name is really important
9. Start writing a good caption in English with some variations of the following words:

• prepositional phrase
• -infinitive phrase
• participatory phrases
• adjective phrase
• question
• exciting

Tips for writing a good caption in English above, of course, not all of them can be used in one photo. There are some that must be adapted to the context.

C. Types of English Subtitles in Today's Media

   The development of content media both offline and online encourages creativity to visualize the best content. Captions are used to provide more information about an image or to beautify an image. Currently, there are several types of complementary images that can be referred to as captions, quoted from brainly, namely:

1. Identification bar: This type of caption only says who is in the picture
2. Cutline: This type of caption says who is being drawn and what they are looking for
3. Summary: Contains a complete explanation of who is in the picture, what was done, when it happened, where it happened, and why it was done.
4. Expanded: A more complete form of summary, this type of text also includes how it happened and quotes.
5. Group identification: Same as the text identification bar type, only this type is used if the image contains more than one person.
6. Quote: quote someone's quote related to the picture.