Making of props: Newspaper

One of my shots required a newspaper article, it played an important part of giving insight into the storyline of the film  as well as setting the mood. I orginally considered making my own newspaper from scratch however I later decided that it would be too time consuming. To make my newspaper article I got a hold of a real newspaper and glued on a picture of a crime scene and by make-believe headline. I had to play around with the font, size and colour of the headline several times in order to make it blend in with the rest of the newspaper (so that it didn't appear fake in shot). I did consider writing the actual article myself but I found that the writing wasn't visable in shot and therefore was unessessary.