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Frankenweenie (2012) colour palette

Directed by Tim Burton · Shot by Peter Sorg

Frankenweenie (2012), shot by Peter Sorg, is monochrome: across 45 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#040404), covering 22.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.423 — brighter than 57% of ranked films

Measured across 45 frames. See the frames on the Frankenweenie page →

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