Creating Newspaper Articles

For my film opening, I need to have lots of newspaper articles about aliens and alien-related stories to show Lia's obsession with the extra-terrestrial life forms that could be outside our atmosphere. Because i couldn't find any real newspapers with stories about aliens, I turned to the Internet for stories. I found lots by just looking on Google and found a surprising amount on the BBC website. I printed off several articles that I found onto grey and yellow grainy paper which I found lying around (i thought it would look more authentic than plain white paper) but it looked far too clean cut to be from a newspaper. I ripped around the edges of each article and screwed them up but they still didn't look very realistic. For some reason, I thought that screwing up an article and chewing it would make it look a little more like a newspaper. It tasted disgusting but it actually worked! The paper looks a little more like newspaper paper and the text is a bit smudged like it is in a normal newspaper. This unfortunately meant that I had to chew all of my articles to make them look more authentic. It wasn't pleasant... I've now left them on the windowsill so hopefully the sun will fade them a bit to make them look like Lia has been displaying them for a long time and has therefore been an unusual being for quite a few years.