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Never Let Me Go (2010) colour palette

Directed by Mark Romanek · Shot by Adam Kimmel

Never Let Me Go (2010), shot by Adam Kimmel, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31322d), covering 15.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.495 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.154 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.411 — brighter than 48% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Never Let Me Go page →

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