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Captions
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Captions
Captions are one of the most important parts of the yearbook. Every picture or module needs a caption, whether it be a summary caption, an expanded caption, a story copy, or an indent.
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Summary Captions
Summary captions are the type you will be using most often. They occur on most student life, academic, and sports spreads.
The summary caption covers the 5 w’s and h: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How
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Part 1: the Lead-In• The first part of ALL captions• A short, witty, punny phrase• Put a period at the end.• It is ALL capitalized
**Bold it, make sure it’s two font sizes bigger, and put it in the section color
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The First Sentence
• –ing phrase,• NAME 11/12• Present tense sentence, giving the
basic info of what is happening
Lunging to reach the ball, JANE DOE 12 focuses during practice for the team’s upcoming game.
**Bold, color, and capitalize names and grades**list the names of everyone in the picture UNLESS there’s more than 5 people
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The Second Sentence
• Past tense• It should give background info
(what you can’t tell from the picture)
• Between the two sentences, 5W&H should be told
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Photo-By
• EVERY PICTURE NEEDS A PHOTO-BY (even if there isn’t a caption)
• at the end of the caption, just: photo by name name
**Font size 6. Italicized. Accent section color. All lowercase. Do NOT bold names. No grade.
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Extended CaptionExtended captions are used on most academic, student life, and sports spreads, but not as often as summary captions.• Summary caption (again, 5W&H) + quote• Quotes: “,” Last name said. (name shouldn’t be bolded)
• Lead in. –ing, First Last 11/12 present tense. Past tense. “Quote,” Last said.
• If the quote is more than one sentence, put the “last name said.” after the first sentence. Then continue.– “It was nice to have a change of pace,” Smith said. “The
food was great and everyone was happy.”
WRONG RIGHTFLOOR IT. Designing a floor plan on AutoCAD, JOHN DOE 12 begins to outline his house. The houses were year-long projects, slowly evolving from 2D to 3D. “I like architectural design because I feel like I have a valuable future in architecture,” Doe said. Photo by suzie smith
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KEY TO GETTING QUOTES• Get a quote as quickly after taking the picture as
possible• Don’t just say “hey I need a quote for the
yearbook”. PLAN AHEAD! Prepare questions ahead of time. How/why are the best.– How did you feel when you won the game? – What was your favorite project from the class?
Why? – What made you want to join the sports team/club?– Tell me more about…..
• If it’s a bad quote, DON’T USE IT– Either go back and ask them to elaborate (aka get
them to say something useable)– OR ask someone else– OR just do a summary caption (but do try to do as
many extended captions as possible)
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Story Copy
The caption for every dominant photo is called a story copy. The rules for a story copy differ from those for a regular caption. A story copy…• Is at least 5 sentences• Contains a lot of background information on
the subject the entire spread is covering (the sport team, academic class…)
• Is completely past tenseBut it still has a lead-in and lists the names of the people in the picture
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Identification Caption (ident)
• An ident is mostly only used in the clubs section.
• It’s used to identify everyone in the picture, not to tell a story about it
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HOMEWORK
For each picture, write a caption. Make sure to include a (witty!) lead-in, a (present tense) first sentence, and a (past tense) second sentence.
If (and ONLY if) there is a good quote, include it.