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Dark Skies (2013) colour palette

Directed by Scott Stewart · Shot by David Boyd

Dark Skies (2013), shot by David Boyd, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 59 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#302e2a), covering 14.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.663 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.153 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.41 — brighter than 48% of ranked films

Measured across 59 frames. See the frames on the Dark Skies page →

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