For the scene where Jack Masters discovers the death of the woman from the first letter we were sure we wanted the information to be found from a newspaper article. In the construction phase of this prop, I used Photoshop to curate an A3 realistic newspaper article.
I began by choosing an article from the internet:
Although we were aware this article had no relevance to our trailer, we really liked the layout of the article. Within Photoshop Yue Chung replaced the image with a photograph that had been previously taken of Jenny Mann (Olivia Blake) which I sugguested edited into black and white in order to make the article more realistic. We then inserted a black box over the text discussing the election and replaced it with the text 'Olivia Blake, mother of two, gone missing.'. In order to further make the newspaper article more believable, we copied an element of text and pasted it over the election figures seen on the left hand side along with the bar code.
My production team and I found that after printing it did not look very realistic due to the harsh white the paper presented. In order to make it look a little more like a newspaper article Lucy and Sarah used tea bags to tint the paper and then stuck it onto a newspaper which had already existed in order to make the thickness realistic as well. Overall, I am very pleased with this prop.
LETTERS
Excellent skills in Photoshop as well as creativity designing and incorporating this convincing prop.
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