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Breaker Morant (1980) colour palette

Directed by Bruce Beresford · Shot by Donald McAlpine

Breaker Morant (1980), shot by Donald McAlpine, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is yellow (#ada792), covering 7.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.647 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.175 — more saturated than 15% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.476 — brighter than 88% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Breaker Morant page →

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