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Captive (2020) colour palette

Directed by Savvas Christou · Shot by Manuel Velásquez

Captive (2020), shot by Manuel Velásquez, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 89 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302c), covering 17.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.847 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.188 — more saturated than 20% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.448 — brighter than 75% of ranked films

Measured across 89 frames. See the frames on the Captive page →

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