But how a picture is framed, captioned, and distributed can blunt, heighten, or pervert its effect.
The Figure caption is sloppy.
Finally, for a more creative twist, students could complete the final Lego frames and captions in this Atlantic piece, "The Government Shutdown, Told in Lego".
Contemporaries such as Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Andrew Loog Oldham are flagged up via freeze-frame and captions, a distracting device that cuts the film's flow dead.
All the items on display in his Surrey home are neatly framed and captioned – and substituted regularly "for a change of scenery".
These are not of course their real names, and Mr. Brown never shows us their faces, which he tucks just out of the frame or behind caption bubbles; usually their backs are turned.
In this instance the cross-fertilization is between painting and film, with an 11-minute truncation of a 1960s Polish film (shot off a television set) functioning as a kind of frame and extended caption for the paintings.
Further, even though there are components that resemble the structure of a movie (e.g., captioned frames, dynamic image sequences and graphics), the image capturing in the specific travel series resembles amateur film-making rather than the systematic and rule-based that is utilized in movies.
Cuoco Sweeting punked her Instagram followers in March when she posted a shot of what looked like short hair with scissors in frame and the caption, "I can't stop!" Turns out it was her makeup artist, not her hairstylist, wielding the shears, and the actress was merely getting ready for an appearance that night at the Kids Choice Awards, Us Weekly reported.
