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Raise The Red Lantern poster

Raise The Red Lantern colour palette

Directed by Zhang Yimou · Shot by Lun Yang

Raise The Red Lantern, shot by Lun Yang, runs vivid and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is deep red (#2d130f), covering 6.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.661 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

vivid

0.478 — more saturated than 96% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.411 — brighter than 47% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Raise The Red Lantern page →

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