Settings of Crime Films

Within many crime films and television shows, there are a variety of different settings present throughout the duration of the aforementioned media product, each of which have a specific purpose, in which they attempt to fulfil.
   Typically crime films would tend to take place in metropolitan city or otherwise crowded or affluent areas, such as in London, Las Vegas, Chicago, etc., with the criminal 'underbelly' of these cities being uncovered and explored throughout the film's span, as the seedy, corrupt or otherwise lawless nature of the setting is exposed by the presence of drug dealers, dark nightclubs and neon signs reading 'Girls, Girls, Girls'. However, we deemed this setting too inappropriate for our target audience, as our genre was that of a crime-comedy, and thus we wished to maintain a light-hearted approach to the criminal world.
   This light-hearted atmosphere was conveyed as we didn't shoot the film in a casino, bank or bookies, as it would be done in a major Hollywood blockbuster, as we didn't feel this truly replicated the nature of our film, and thus it was substituted for a corner shop in town. This setting, tranquil in comparison to that of Ocean's Eleven or The Untouchables, felt truer to the anglocentrism that we had hoped for pre-production.
   Within our second scene, the heist room is shown to be basic, it's not extravagant because why would it be? Our story is that of 3 moderately successful criminals, they aren't poor, but are certainly not rich, this room conveys this. Louie, Mitchell and Jacob can afford a living but just not an amazingly aesthetic 'epicentre of crime'; just the basics.