Ollie Johnson
AS/A2 Media

In his interview Shane Meadows talks about his directing/filming technique. He always uses a small budget and says that this makes the film more realistic and represents society better that using famous actors and stars. He says that some of the dialogue in a scene would be improvised and that a page script could become much more and that a ten page script could become much less. This improvisation again portrays social realism; a more realistic representation of society. Also he has a good relationship with the actors who he says are welcome to make changes to the script. In all of his scenes he uses natural lighting from pre-bulit sets and this again adds to the social realism of his films. When he has a larger budget to use on his most recent films he still uses the same techniques as with his earlier films and this has become his own unique style of film making.