Enhancing Your Photos with Informative Cutlines
Learn the importance of adding cutlines or captions to your photos in photojournalism. Understand the key elements of writing a good cutline and the ethics involved in photojournalism. Get ready to create a slideshow featuring your photos with detailed cutlines for a school assignment.
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CUTLINES Your picture may be worth 1,000 words, but you should add a few
PHOTO CUTLINES A.K.A. CAPTIONS TWO PARTS TO A CUTLINE 1. Who is in the photo and what are they doing? 2. Why is it important?
WRITING GOOD CUTLINES Who, what when where and why of what is happening Names of people shown spelled correctly What is going on The date including the day of the week and year Where it is happening including the city and state Why the event pictured is going on and why it is important to the story
WRITING A STRONG CUTLINE PART TWO PART ONE Explains why the action is important and gives context Describe the action seen in the photo Written in the past tense Write it in the present tense The reason is because you are not telling the story of what happened, but you are, AT THE PRESENT TIME, guiding the viewer through the picture.
PHOTOJOURNALISM ETHICS PHOTOS REPORT FACTS DO NOT SET UP OR RECREATE AN EVENT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A PORTRAIT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TONING AND CROPPING, YOU CANNOT USE SOFTWARE TO ADD OR REMOVE ELEMENTS TO PHOTOS. ANYTHING ELSE IS A LIE.
Youll need your pictures that you took for the Picture It This Way assignment Go through the photos and choose the ones that you feel have the most journalistic merit. For each photo, you will write a cutline. You can use the cutline writing sheet to help you. ACTIVITY Once you are done you will create a slideshow featuring your photo and the cutline you wrote for it. One photo per slide, please. You will print out your slide show, put it into a folder with your name on it and turn it into your teacher.
CUTLINES Your picture may be worth 1,000 words, but you should add a few
