ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that ground to produce a further approach uses the theories covered, and intends to enhance the methods to look at the aspects of television and film texts. It offers an approach, inspired by the issues evident when studying television, which examines the world-community-character function of what has previously been known as simply the setting. The chapter offers a non-media specific language which talks about film and television set design in terms of their spatial commonalities, offering a taxonomy of critical terms which are not merely production or historically based, nor favour the cinema approaches of mise-en-scene and narrative and try to understand the spatial functions of a design which establish generic or narrative aspects of the world, the communities or the character functions within a narrative.
