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Elemental (2023) colour palette

Directed by Peter Sohn · Shot by Jean-Claude Kalache

The main colours of Elemental (2023) are orange (#fe4702), yellow (#fed401) and violet (#4b0082): a warm, highly saturated palette, measured across the film's frames.

Elemental (2023), shot by Jean-Claude Kalache, runs highly saturated and warm, measured across 89 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and violet. The single most common colour is orange (#fe4702), covering 8.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.327 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

highly saturated

0.741 — more saturated than 100% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.507 — brighter than 95% of ranked films

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

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