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Red Dawn (2012) colour palette

Directed by Dan Bradley · Shot by Mitchell Amundsen

Red Dawn (2012), shot by Mitchell Amundsen, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 148 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31312d), covering 17.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.488 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.166 — more saturated than 12% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.353 — brighter than 11% of ranked films

Measured across 148 frames. See the frames on the Red Dawn page →

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