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Blue Jay (2016) colour palette

Directed by Alexandre Lehmann · Shot by Alexandre Lehmann

Blue Jay (2016), shot by Alexandre Lehmann, is monochrome: across 61 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#010101), covering 20.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.418 — brighter than 52% of ranked films

Measured across 61 frames. See the frames on the Blue Jay page →

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