Caption+Initials+JJ


 * 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 **


 * Answers to questions: **

2. Skeletons connotate 'Halloween'.

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Skeletons connotate 'Halloween'.

6. I think the meaning or connotation of the image is changed by the caption, because with each different image, there's a different connotation. This picture shows someone's nail that have skeleton looking nails, due to nail polish. When you see skeletons, the first thing that comes to mind is Halloween because Halloween involves a lot of skeletons.