Stills, screencaps & shots from Education
16 of 38 frames — the full set is searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood with a free account.
What is Education about?
A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final Small Axe film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action.
What does the cinematography of Education look like?
Sampled across 38 frames, the coverage of Education leans on medium shots and close-ups. The lighting keeps most of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — most of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in most of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Education?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Education (2020) are #30302f, #4c5350, #d2d1ca, #d3c8b0, #ccb290, #8e908b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#30302f#4c5350#d2d1ca#d3c8b0#ccb290#8e908b
See the full Education colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.
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