Dark Effects in Ankoku Joshi Movie

Abstract

Lighting is the crucial aspect of a movie since it may convey the intended message to the audience. The main goal of this research is to analysing the dark effect as an aesthetic component in the Ankoku Joshi movie. The theory used in the analysis of the data is John Fiske's semiotic theory combined using the Descriptive Analysis methods in this study. The main subject from this study is Ankoku Joshi movie. Through this research it is known that dark lighting effects are supported by other elements such as character expressions, timing, music and sound effects. The dark effect reinforces the impression of 'dark, ugliness, evil' in the story that becomes the beauty or aesthetics in the Ankoku Joshi movie.