Shane meadows utilises cinematography, in particular extreme closeups, in the moving ending of the film. This not only connects the audience with Shaun as he loses all pride with England and feels hopeless, but also raises the question, to young boys like Shaun, over the wrong influence and how dangerous it can become.

This is England is rich in different aspects of Mise-en-scene to ensure the verisimilitude of the movie. The scene where Shaun first presents his skin-head to his mum uses symmetry in a way that sculpts the scene as detrimental to the story of Shaun’s early life. This visually pleasing composition tells the spectator that this scene holds a higher importance and significance than a scene that uses a more inversive shot distance/ angle.

Shane meadows uses sound in This is England to set the atmosphere for the movie, in the opening scene Shane uses the song ‘Toots and Maytals’ during a well thought out montage to thoroughly immerse the spectator in various events in the 80’s in England.

Shane meadows uses editing to tell the story of Shaun’s gradual descent into the skin-head culture. There are three main montages in the film, one alone and isolates, one happy with woody’s gang, and one of Shaun being ‘trained’ by Combo. By categorizing the movie into three montages, the spectator is forced to depict Shaun’s life as someone mourning the loss of his father who is fortunate to find friends, who are possibly the wrong influence, and how this leads to Shaun being corrupted by Combo and put in danger.