This document discusses the importance of captions when analyzing photographic images. It provides examples of images without captions and instructs readers to write captions that establish context for the images. The goal is to demonstrate how captions can influence the messages conveyed by the images. Readers are given 10 minutes to write captions before the document shifts to providing information about related topics like Crimestoppers and the Sundance Film Festival.

1. Images in the Media 2
The importance of captions when
analysing photographic images
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2. Images in the Media 2
• Look at each of these images and think
about the caption on each one.
• How does the caption set the context for
the image?
• How might a change of caption alter the
context of the image?
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3. Image 1
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4. Image 2
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5. Image 3
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6. Images in the Media 2
• The following slides have no caption.
• Your task is the write a caption to set the
context of the image.
• Think about the message you think that
the image portrays and write your
caption to bring out this view more
clearly.
• You have 10 minutes to complete the
task.
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7. Create a Caption 1
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8. Create a Caption 2
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9. Create a Caption 3
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10. Crimestoppers
This Resource has
been produced by the
charity Crimestoppers
specifically for youth
workers to stimulate
discussions around
crimes that are
relevant to the young
people that they work
with.
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11. Partners in Crime
The original Partners in
Crime were formed in the
Eighties. A couple of
years later the band
changed it's name to
Screen Hereos. During it's
existence the band were
an ever-present on the
Birmingham music scene,
notching-up an enormous
amount of gigs, and
developing a huge
following.
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12. The Sundance Film Festival
Inside I'm Sundancing.
Three new blisters on
my foot won't stop me
joining the hordes
shuffling through snow
and slush to enjoy the
best in indie film-
making for the next 10 There and back again...
Indie darling Catherine
days. Keener (right) returns to
Sundance with An
American Crime.
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