Notes on Somers Town

Posted on Monday, 19 October 2009
Filed under "G322B Film Industry"

Before the showing of Somers Town we had a 20 minute talk about what make a British film, the new wave and a little about Shane Meadows

What makes a British Film?

The thing that make a British film, British the following:

- They tend to be about everyday people

- The Budget doesn’t go in to the millions, they are normal very low budget being Asponsored by small companies.

- Normally about the working class.

British New Wave 1958 - 1963

During this time period came the expansion of film making. Our new wave happened very closely with the French new wave, the well known film for this is “Look Back in Anger”. You maybe asking what changed? Well with sexual content becoming less strict film makers started adding sexual scenes in to the films. This is not the only thing, before the new wave the films where very simple the heroes always won against the villains. But with the new age the villains sometimes won.

About Shane Meadows

Shane Meadow (1962) is a self taught Director, Screen Writer and Actor he is also a working class man. He started filming in 1969, with his first film “Small Time”, but however he was not well know until he brought out the film “This Is England” (2006). Meadows also brought a variety of short films starting form 1994.