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First Name: Carmen poster

First Name: Carmen (1983) colour palette

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Shot by Raoul Coutard

First Name: Carmen (1983), shot by Raoul Coutard, runs muted and warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33312c), covering 11.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.585 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.253 — more saturated than 51% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.437 — brighter than 67% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the First Name: Carmen page →

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