I have been watching the film, ‘this is England’ by Warp Films. The film was directed by Shane Meadows. At the begging of the film there is an advertisement that shows the audience that the film was founded by the national lottery and also the British distributers.

The budget of the film is £1,500,000 the story board of this is England is all about the 1980’s, at the beginning of the film this is given away because there is a clip of a lot of different things that was common in the 80’s e.g. poverty, mining strike. Shane Meadows uses all of the same production practise techniques in this film as ‘Dead man’s shoes’. Some examples of Shane Meadows using the same production techniques are: the natural lighting, the setting of the film is real and not made, there are no famous actors like Simon Pegg / Nick Frost and so on... in the film the characters are not known and this is because of one of Shane Meadows rules for a low budget film, this rule is that the big stars cost too much to hire and they may not always suite the characters role in the film, the main character in the film is a young boy called Shaun is a boy who is bullied at school (he can be classed as the hero in the film looking for some friends) he is also instantly liked by the audience, this is because he is being picked on at school for his dad being dead by all of the other kids. He then finds some friends. This film is set in the 1980’s because it is in the time of the extreme political change.

The budget that has been used for this film would affect the film production because it would affect the target audience because they are limited to what they can get and what they can afford, e.g. the actors. The budget affects the target audience because the target audience range is getting lower, the target audience for this film is: ‘lower working class’ this is because the film has very bad language, drug references, alcohol, violence and so on... all of these points are related to the lower working class.

Shane meadows is using the same techniques throughout the films that he makes and this is because he can then keep the overall cost of the film/movie down making the risk of the film loosing money, this means that there is a less chance of loosing money, but there is also a smaller target for the target audience. As the films that Shane Meadows makes progresses through the budget keeps getting higher, this is shown when he started off making films for about £300,000 but now he has past the £1.5 million mark.