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Maniac (2012) colour palette

Directed by Franck Khalfoun · Shot by Maxime Alexandre

Maniac (2012), shot by Maxime Alexandre, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f3230), covering 15.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.46 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.174 — more saturated than 15% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.425 — brighter than 57% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Maniac page →

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