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Nowhere Boy poster

Nowhere Boy colour palette

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson · Shot by Seamus McGarvey

Nowhere Boy, shot by Seamus McGarvey, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#34312c), covering 12.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.807 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.252 — more saturated than 50% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.427 — brighter than 58% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Nowhere Boy page →

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