This document outlines the key elements of crime genre films, including iconic images like guns, cars, drugs, and money; typical settings like banks, streets, and offices; common narratives around gang robberies and murders; and characteristic styles involving fast cars, piles of money, deaths, and car chases with police. It provides an overview of the iconography, settings, narratives, characters, and visual style commonly found in heist and crime genre films.

1. Genre
Crime
Sub-Genre: Heist

2. Iconography
Iconography: Genre films can be identified by key iconic images. Here are some examples;
• Guns
• Cars of various price
• Drugs
• Weapons
• Money
• Bank
• Vault
• Masks
• Plan

3. Setting
Main settings in a Crime genre film is:
Offices
Houses
Bank
Dark streets
Major Cities
Restraunts

4. Narrative
A life of Crime
Gang bank robber
Raised in rough area
Constant law breakers
Will Police catch them?
A character will be murdered
Who will get what was stolen, if anything was stolen?

5. Characters
Typical Characters to be involved in a Crime Genre:
Gangsters
Mob Bosses
Drug Dealers
Police
Agents (FBI, MI6)
Robber (Bank, Houses)

6. Style
Fast Cars
Piles of Money
Death/murder
Car chase (Usually involving the Police)