Childhood of a Leader (2015) colour palette

Directed by Brady Corbet · Shot by Lol Crawley

#2f302fdark grey · 14.8%
#4e4f4bdark grey · 7.7%
#141515near black · 7.7%
#d4d2cdlight grey · 6.5%
#8e8e88mid grey · 5.5%
#28231cdeep orange · 3.9%

Childhood of a Leader (2015), shot by Lol Crawley, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f302f), covering 14.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.521 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.143 — more saturated than 8% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.407 — brighter than 45% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the Childhood of a Leader page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

Winter’s Bone

2010 · Debra Granik

Never Let Me Go

2010 · Mark Romanek

28 Weeks Later

2007 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

JFK

1991 · Oliver Stone

Adaptation

2002 · Spike Jonze

The King’s Speech

2010 · Tom Hooper

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