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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) colour palette

Directed by Shaka King · Shot by Sean Bobbitt

The main colours of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) are pale orange (#f7f6f4) and yellow (#4e4939), over a near-black base: a warm, muted palette, measured across the film's frames.

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), shot by Sean Bobbitt, runs muted and warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30302d), covering 16.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.416 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.204 — more saturated than 26% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.368 — brighter than 18% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the Judas and the Black Messiah page →

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