Bird Box (2018) colour palette
Directed by Susanne Bier · Shot by Salvatore Totino
The main colours of Bird Box (2018) are deep yellow (#28261c) and yellow (#4b4b3a), over a near-black base: a warm, heavily desaturated palette, measured across the film's frames.
- #2f312edark grey · 15.3%
- #121210near black · 8.5%
- #50514cdark grey · 7.8%
- #717069mid grey · 4.7%
- #28261cdeep yellow · 4.1%
- #4b4b3ayellow · 3.7%
Bird Box (2018), shot by Salvatore Totino, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 59 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
0.46 on −1 cool to +1 warm
Saturation
heavily desaturated
0.155 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films
Luminance
dark
0.344 — brighter than 8% of ranked films
Measured across 59 frames. See the frames on the Bird Box page →
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