Ken Loach Scripting

Ken Loach: Ken is renowned for his filming techniques especially when it comes to social realism. Ken strives to make his scene's appear as real as possible. Many directors chose to not use scripts when social realism as they feel that the characters natural emotions and reactions will create a more 'realistic' scene. However, Ken Loach carefully scripts all of his scenes and rather then using actors, Ken builds a strong relationship with his scriptwriter to work together to plan detailed scripted scenes. Ken does use traditional methods when filming social realism too, like many directors of social realism Ken tries to find undiscovered talent who have experienced similar situations to those in the film.