This document discusses the typical settings and locations used in TV crime dramas and how they appeal to audiences and provide storylines. It notes that settings usually fall into rural or urban categories and compares locations in shows like Wire in the Blood. Key functions of settings/locations are to provide realism or escapism, create fear or excitement, challenge protagonists, and provide opportunities for crime. The extract asks the reader to consider these factors and write a short response choosing and justifying a setting for a TV crime drama.

1. TV Crime Genre: Settings and Locations
C: To understand the typical settings and Key words:
locations used in TV Crime Drama Setting
B To analyse how mise en scene represents Location
typical locations and settings Rural
Urban
A: To evaluate how the typical settings and Realism
locations used in TV Crime Drama appeal to Mise en scene
audiences and provide storylines
What is the difference between setting
and location?
Wire in the Blood
Setting- time and place-present day
fictional city of Bradfield
Location- Bradfield university,
Bradfield What are the setting and locations seen in
Metropolitan Police HQ this extract

2. Settings in TV Crime Drama tend to fall
into one of the following categories
RURAL OR URBAN
Wide open spaces- Poverty
hills/woods/valleys Gritty Streets/Alleyways
Close communities Crime and threat
Limited outsiders Isolation
Wealthy Noisy
Quiet Crowded
Sleepy Cosmopolitan
Isolation Exciting

3. Compare the following locations in the these TV Crime Dramas:
How are they represented?

4. The role of settings/location is to appeal to the audience and
support the storylines
The key functions they provide are:
Realism/escapism
Create Fear for the audience
Create excitement
Challenge the protagonist
Provide opportunities for crime and
deviance
Watch the extract again from Luther.
Discuss how the settings and locations offer the functions above?

5. Which setting would allow for the most
crime/drama/excitement and audience appeal in
your TV Crime Drama?
Write 150 words on your choice of setting and why
Consider: setting and location
Potential for storylines
Conventions of TV Crime Genre
Appeal to audience
Ext: The possibility of conflict between the protagonist and criminals