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Saw II colour palette

Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman · Shot by David A. Armstrong

The main colours of Saw II are deep green (#0e2811), deep yellow (#2b2b18) and yellow (#4a4e35), over a near-black base: a warm, natural palette, measured across the film's frames.

Saw II, shot by David A. Armstrong, runs natural and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are green and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2d322a), covering 10% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.409 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.367 — more saturated than 88% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.325 — brighter than 3% of ranked films

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

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