I, Daniel Blake (2016) colour palette

Directed by Ken Loach · Shot by Robbie Ryan

#2f2f2edark grey · 18.6%
#534e4bdark grey · 11.7%
#8e8f8bmid grey · 11.7%
#afafablight grey · 6.2%
#727370mid grey · 5.5%
#181614near black · 4.8%

I, Daniel Blake (2016), shot by Robbie Ryan, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 29 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2f2e), covering 18.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.414 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.114 — more saturated than 5% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.403 — brighter than 43% of ranked films

Measured across 29 frames. See the frames on the I, Daniel Blake page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

Sin City

2005 · Robert Rodriguez

Ringu

1998 · Hideo Nakata

28 Weeks Later

2007 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Moneyball

2011 · Bennett Miller

Now You See Me 2

2016 · Jon M. Chu

A Cure for Wellness

2017 · Gore Verbinski

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