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Crash poster

Crash (1996) colour palette

Directed by David Cronenberg · Shot by Peter Suschitzky

Crash (1996), shot by Peter Suschitzky, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2c2f), covering 16.9% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.458 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.153 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.371 — brighter than 21% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Crash page →

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