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Movie colour palettes

Saw poster

Saw colour palette

Directed by James Wan · Shot by David A. Armstrong

Saw, shot by David A. Armstrong, runs natural and balanced, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and green. The single most common colour is near black (#0c0e0c), covering 12% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

balanced

0.164 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.314 — more saturated than 76% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.321 — brighter than 3% of ranked films

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

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