Marc Forster's "The Kite Runner" (2007)

his movie begins with an interesting array of title graphics, these are cool because they mix the english and the afgani text ideas into moving credits. The next thing that i liked about this movie is that their sets in the begining of the movie are full of people, colour and equiptment, contrasting the latter version after the russians invade. Lighting wise this is a reaslistic movie that uses both practical lighting, set lighting and natural lighting though in some cases a reflector has been used to reflect sunlight into the actor to brighten them in the scene or create a backlight for them. The practical lights ranged from lamps to bulb chains and celing lights, this helps create a realistic atmosphere and also creates interesting shadows on the sets. Practical lights can also inclde the fireworks in Amirs party as a sourse of coloured light. In darker scenes edge light is used for optimum surface modeling to show depth on the actor faces. Set lighting meanwhile can be found in interior shots to help create artifical sunlight, floods are placed oustide windows and doors and are hidden from view with opaque glass or shutters, or in the market scenes in L.A. fluro lights are used to simulate light comming in from sky lights. The best scene in this movie lighting wise would have to be the scene in the fuel truck, the only source of light is Baba's watch, lighting the scene in an eairy green while Amir sings himself to sleep.