Location and setting

Location and setting

·         Set (built for the show normally in a studio) VS. Location

·         The use of real urban settings can add a since of realism at drama and danger and grit to a crime or thriller.

·         Narrative exposition helps filmmakers reveal curtail details about characters and plot through visual meaning. (show don’t tell)

·         Set dressing can tell us who characters are and what events might have happened in their past.

·         Setting can also link with genre expectations (crime dramas might be set in isolated places i.e. warehouses)

Location and setting in Luther:

Genre: TV crime drama, the location is stereotypical of the genre because it is isolated and urban, it is in a dark abandoned industrial building (location not set) which is stereotypical for the antagonist’s hideout in an urban crime drama. The other scene that runs parallel to the scene with Luther in it is also stereotypical because it is in a suburban housing estate which is stereotypical for a.