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// The Kite Runner (2007) //

__ Camera angles - eye level __ This scene conforms to eye level and lets the viewer identify with the lens. In other words, the audience feels like she is on the same street the two boys walk, standing about 1-2 meters away from the boys and watching them passing.

__ Distance - medium shot __ This scene is too close to be called long shot, and is too far to be called close-up. It would be medium shot, there is no exact framing of medium shot though. There are two people together from the other person's point of view, and a clear view of an interaction between them are shown in this scene. The two boys are walking on the street and talking happily about what they've just done together.

__ Lighting - bright __ The showing tone of this film is very bright because of the sunshine lighting on the boys. It creates very warm atmosphere and helps the audience infer the strong bonds between them.

__ Color - warm colors __ The colors shown in this scene are mostly warm colors, such as red and yellow. The background, the wall, pillars and bricks are ivory and light brown colors. So are the boys' clothes. These colors enhances the warm atmosphere generated by light.

__ Prop & costume - kite & clothing __ The kite seems like an important medium that connects the two boys. The boy who is holding the kite looks like the one with more control over the kite. However, from the fact that the boy without kite is wearing fancier outers, while the boy with kite is wearing relatively shabby jackets, it can be inferred that one of them is superior to another one because of their different social status.

__ Setting - street & winter __ In this scene, the place an action takes place is the street, but the location does not seem to be an important factor in creating certain moods or setting up the background because the place is not fully taken, while the camera is focused on taking the two boys. Another factor of setting, time is probably january or february, and it is given by white snow on the street and plants. It gives an idea that the overall story takes place in winter.

__ Camera height - upper perspective __ The point of view in this scene is never extremely high up nor low down. It could be upper perspective only because a part of the boys' feet are cut and not fully shown, thus giving an impression that the camera is taking them at slightly lower position.

__ Psychology - building strong bonds __ This scene tells a part of context of the film; it shows that the two boys are complementing each other's skills in flying kites and encouraging each other to win a kite-flying competition held in their village.