The symbolic function of color in building scene atmosphere in Iranian religious animations

Colors can carry a variety of explicit or implicit messages and can affect personal and group feelings, communication, thinking, and behavior. Iran, with its ancient antiquity in its traditional or modern context, has used the aspects and characteristics of color in all its biological fields and cultural, artistic and religious assets. Colors have always had an overt or covert identity that has been used in accordance with Iranian beliefs. In the Qur'an, hadiths and narrations, the physiological effective properties of colors have even been mentioned many times. Media literacy and audience awareness, especially in recent years, have led filmmakers and producers of the art of animation media to visual cinema, and color plays an important role as an important element. The art of animation in Iran has a long history, influenced by such an approach, and has been trying for years to take advantage of the properties of colors in the crystallization and prevalence of national religion and culture. The present study aims to examine and analyze the status and position of this national belief about the symbolic role of color with an applied objective. The main problem of the present study is to investigate how colors are used in creating the scene atmosphere of Iranian religious animations based on the ancient Iranian Islamic culture. Qualitative research method with an analytical-descriptive approach has been used based on collecting information from library sources and audio-visual archives. Hence, the film "Prince of Rome" will be considered as a purposeful selection.