Inspiration - Creating a 1950's Newspaper

In film noir's the detective can often be seen reading a newspaper. For inspiration I looked online at some 1950's styled newspapers. I decided on the 1950's as this was one of the eras that film noir was most popular. Our film opening is set around the 1940s/50s so this newspaper would also have to be set at a similar time to fit in with the mise- en-scene. If the newspaper was being left on the detectives desk only the front cover of the newspaper would be seen .Therefore, I have decided to create the front of the newspaper first.

Los Angeles Times

Key features:

• One main headline and two smaller main headlines
• Photos- black and white
• Columns
• Several different stories
• Small text- black
• Newspaper name at the top in the centre
• Border lines at the top of the newspaper to separate the newspaper name from the articles
• White paper
• Small advertisement in a box on the left side of the newspaper name
• Logo

New York Sentinel



Key features:

• One main headline
• Newspaper name at the top in the centre
• Border lines at the top of the newspaper to separate the newspaper name from the articles
• Photos- black and white
• Columns
• Small text- black
• White paper

The News

Key features:

• One main headline
• One large photo connected to the main headline
• The photo has a caption
• Photo- black and white
• Small text- black
• Border lines at the top of the newspaper to separate the newspaper name from the articles
• Brown paper
• Small advertisements in boxes either side of the newspaper name