You already have a draft of your montage, with its parts in order, and a source log that lists everything you borrowed. In this lesson you add two things a viewer needs.

Today you will

1. Write captions: short lines that say what each part of your montage is.
2. Write credits: who made each thing you borrowed.
3. Swap with a partner, who checks that nothing has been left without a credit.

Without captions, a viewer has to guess what they are looking at. Without credits, nobody can see who made the things you borrowed, or that you were allowed to use them.

Look at these two made-up credits for a free-to-reuse photo of a hurling match.

The strong one says what the image shows, who made it, where it came from and what the licence allows. The licence is the rule about reuse that came with the file. Every borrowed image, clip and sound needs a credit this good.

Open your montage draft, saved the class way. Your plan and source log are in Your project so far above, and Enter Your Work under this step opens with your source log, ready for your credits. Work through these steps on your own.

1. Add a caption to each image, clip, sound or section of your montage in your editor. One clear sentence is enough, saying what the part is and why it is there. Captions go on the montage itself.
2. Then write a full credit in your source log, in Enter Your Work under this step, for every borrowed file. Say what the item is, who made it, where it came from and what the licence allows. If you do not know who made it, write "creator not listed" rather than guessing a name.
3. If you have time, start putting credits on the montage in a credits section, an end card (a screen at the end that lists the credits) or a caption block (a box of text on the screen). Begin with any music, then the main image. It is fine if some are not on yet, because your partner will note which credits are still only in your log.
4. Save your montage the class way, in the place where you normally keep your work for this course, and press Save on your source log.

If you find a line hard to start, use these:

Before you finish, check that a stranger could follow every caption.

First practise the check at the festival booth below with your partner. Then check each other's real montage the same way.

1. On the booth's start screen, choose Relaxed: no clock, and open the booth on Monday. For each film, look at every part of the montage, find its line in the source log and its credit on the end card, and read its library page. Approve a clean film, or send it back with one precise flag: the exact part or line, and what is wrong with it. Stop when your teacher calls time.
2. Now swap. Open your partner's montage and source log the way your teacher shows you.
3. Go through the montage part by part. For every borrowed image, clip or sound, check that there is a credit in the source log, and note whether it is on the montage yet.
4. Give your partner one flag to fix first: the exact part or log line, and what is wrong with it. If everything matches, tell them that instead.
5. Then fix the flag your partner gave you on your own montage. Write any other problems as a short list at the end of your source log in Enter Your Work on the Hands-on step, and press Save. Save your montage again the class way.