Genre: Social Realism 

"The concept of 'social realism' is rather complex, since although it is not something like genre, which has collective characteristics on style and mode of narrative, it has been treated as one."TAKAKO SEINO

Social realist films involve certain conventions that are typical of the social realism genre., such as the locations used in these films are rarely sets that are built for that purpose, they are more likely to be real locations such as council estates."With Ken Loach we get representations of places in Britain which we have never seen on screens before"