Headlines and Captions verbalvisual connection Headlines Unify Photos

Headlines and Captions

verbal-visual connection • Headlines Unify Photos With Stories & Captions – Primary headline (largest) • catchy phrase or single word – Secondary headline • sentence providing details

play on words Whitney HS, CA

verbal-visual connection • Create Effective Headlines – Use strong action verbs – Write in present tense – Find a clever way to create verbal-visual connection between headline and photo

verbal-visual connection • Headlines Unify Photos With Stories & Captions – Choose key words inspired by photo – Brainstorm rhyming words & phases or puns that play on the key words – Fit key word into phrase to create a clever verbal-visual connection

verbal-visual connection • What’s The Big Idea? – Key words: face, pie, smile – Rhyming words: place, trace – Rhyming phrase: • All over the place – Headline or lead-in: • All over the face

verbal-visual connection • What’s The Big Idea? – – Key words: Rhyming phrase: Headline or lead-in:

Your Assignment… Pick your fav. pic from this week (each of you) Get a large paper group Have Mrs. G print your chosen pics Create a Two-part headline for each photo using the strategies given in this presentation • Tape/Glue the photo to your paper and write the headlines and captions • USE DESIGN! How should it look? How would it look in the Yearbook? • •