Skint is a mixed documentary that uses interviews with local families and individuals in the area, a voiceover narration, and observation footage. It follows themes of crime by profiling a drug addict who steals to support her habit and families with little money by showing how they live. Through medium close ups, close ups, and straight cuts, the documentary captures footage of the areas and homes of the subjects interviewed to depict their lives through a narrative structure with music, dialogue, and voiceover in the editing.