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Making Waves poster

Making Waves (1998) colour palette

Directed by David Nixon

Making Waves (1998) runs muted and warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is near white (#f7f7f7), covering 10.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits bright.

Warmth

warm

0.382 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.254 — more saturated than 51% of ranked films

Luminance

bright

0.574 — brighter than 100% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the Making Waves page →

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