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Bird Box (2018) colour palette

Directed by Susanne Bier · Shot by Salvatore Totino

Bird Box (2018), shot by Salvatore Totino, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f312e), covering 15.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.457 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.153 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.342 — brighter than 9% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Bird Box page →

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