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Scream 4 (2011) colour palette

Directed by Wes Craven · Shot by Peter Deming

The main colours of Scream 4 (2011) are pale yellow (#f5f5f2), deep orange (#48392d) and pale orange (#d5d1c9), over a near-black base: a warm, muted palette, measured across the film's frames.

Scream 4 (2011), shot by Peter Deming, runs muted and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#322f2c), covering 11.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.427 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.268 — more saturated than 58% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.406 — brighter than 44% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Scream 4 page →

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