[Music] hello welcome back to ecc rita's youtube channel with me miss ella in today's video we'll be talking about caption tags so what is the caption text the manga [Music] [Music] foreign so to know more about caption text let's watch this video so what are we going to learn about caption first we're going to find out the definition of caption the social function the generic structure language feature rules of writing caption and also the types of caption okay let's begins with the definition of caption based on cambridge dictionary caption is a short piece of text under a picture in a book magazine or newspaper that describes the picture or explain what the people in it are doing or saying jedi captioned it to adolescent [Music] a caption also means to give illustration or description to a picture photo table diagram or chart jetty to juwan caption adela description [Music] table [Music] so that is the social function of the captions to help the reader or viewer to understand information that may not be in a photo [Music] [Music] video next we have the generic structure of caption the title delete and the section heading then we have the language features so what are the language features of caption first we have exclamation so what is an exclamation exclamation is a statement that expresses strong emotion such as surprise anger excitement happiness or other emotions [Music] [Music] the next feature is question so you can make a question for your caption for example have you ever visited this place next we have adjective phrase so to make your caption more beautiful or more meaningful you can also use the adjective phrase like the word wonderful view beautiful place tasty food or challenging sport the last is prepositional phrase so you can also use prepositional phrase for your caption like the word at the beach in the evening or on the mountain [Music] who what where when why and how second you have to use present tense in the first sentence [Music] next caption are written in a complete sentence then your caption should clearly identify the people and the location [Music] and last identify the person from left to right [Music] we have identification bar cut line summary expanded quote and group identification the first type of the caption is the identification bar so what is an identification bar in this caption you only have to mention the subject in the picture jedi by the identification bar alyan look at the example mark zuckenberg the ceo and founder of facebook ceo and founder daddy facebook next type is the cut line in this type of caption you don't only mention the subject in the picture but also the activity they do [Music] on is crowned putri indonesia 2022. jedi the subject is lakshmi shari di nafi suargana and in that picture she is crowned putri indonesia 2022 chadipada gambarini then we have summary in this type of caption you need to give full explanation about the subject the activity the time the location and the reason why it happened in other words your caption should answer the questions of who what where when and why first let's find the subject of this caption who are they okay that's right lion ear passengers then what happened [Music] they stand in a line to claim their ticket money back after their flights were delayed where is it at sukarna hata airport and when is it [Music] it's on february 20 2021 why do they claim their ticket money back well it's because their flights were delayed [Music] okay the fourth type of caption is expanded expanded caption is almost similar to the previous types of caption that is summary but this type has a longer version this includes how the event occurred and also the quotes from people [Music] supporting by their summary expanded captions information [Music] next type of caption is quote what is a quote a quote consists of someone's words which has been quoted and it is usually related to the picture of photos [Music] now let's have a look at the example here i believe you know who thomas alpha edison is and here's his one of his famous quotes genius is one percent inspiration and 99 perspiration next let's have a look at the other example of quotes in this picture you can see a pile of stones [Music] it needs balance so what can you say about the balance balance it's not something you find it's something you create let's see other samples of quotes here we have a beautiful picture of a road and then there is a caption about it difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations another picture we can see a man walking along the road and then there is a caption about it it's better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction the last type of the caption is the group identification we use this type of caption when we want to identify more than one subjects in the picture [Music] look at the picture and the caption below belgian royal couple king philip and quinn matilda post in front of dutch mahal in agra so there are two people in this picture king philip and his wife quinn matilda now that you have learned how to make caption and also the types of caption it's time for you to write your own caption for the following pictures you can write your caption on the comment below well hopefully today's video can help you create a better caption text for your post later okay thank you for watching and don't forget to like comment share and subscribe our channel see you [Music] you