Captions+VKA

Captions VKA


 * Objectives: Students will **
 * 1) define captions for images as "a title, short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph"
 * 2) compare and contrast the messages in captions with the messages in the image.
 * 3) describe an example of a caption that changes the interpretation of the image.


 * Consider the following questions **
 * 1) How much can you change the meaning by adding your own caption? How is language used to change the connotation of an image?
 * 2) What do you would be good captions for the pictures above?
 * 3) Do you think newspapers and magazines ever set out deliberately to change the meaning of an image by the caption they use?

// Sports Illustrated for Kids // requested that viewers submit a caption for a chance to appear in an issue of // Sports Illustrated Kids // ! Why? @http://www.sikids.com/contests/funny-photo (see 2 photos below)


 * || [[image:icsmedialiteracy/091812funny-photo.jpg caption="091812funny-photo.jpg"]] ||
 * from Sports Illustrated for Kids. ||  ||   || [[image:icsmedialiteracy/funny-photo-101813.jpg caption="funny-photo-101813.jpg"]] ||
 * From Sports Illustrated for Kids ||  ||


 * Resources: **
 * Girls Life
 * Sports Illustrated
 * Sports Illustrated for Kids
 * Seventeen
 * Teen Vogue
 * World Newspapers and Magazines for Teens


 * Assignment **
 * 1) Create a wiki pages named Caption initials. Put the uploaded image and paragraph on your page.
 * 2) Look through the **resources** links above for newspapers and magazines to find an example of an interesting image where the meaning or connotation can be changed with a caption..
 * 3) Right-click on the image, then "Save As" the image to My Documents on your computer.
 * 4) Copy the URL of the newspaper or magazine image. Use the wiki File button to **Upload the File**, the image, to your page. After the image file is uploaded, paste the URL of the original location of the image below the image on your page.
 * 5) Click on the picture to add your own caption.
 * 6) Explain how you think the meaning or connotation of the image is changed by the caption.
 * View example: Captions RGC **

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