THE POWER OF COLOR TO SUPPORT MOOD ON FILM

Abstract

According to Sulasmi Darma’s book, Warna, color can affect the human soul strongly or can affect human emotions. Color can also describe a person's mood. In thiller films, color can also be a sign or mood. In general, the colors used are dark or blue because they can give a gloomy, dark, pressure and depression effect. According to the research of Brosin and Fromm it was concluded that the brain effect had collided, the physical stimulation of color shock does not need to be in the field of unconsciousness, color is a very complex event that enters the entire physical body as a whole. And the writer applies the theory about tetradic and monochromatic in the film titled “stupor”. There are different effects between using tetradic and monochrome to create mood or dramatic effect.