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Slackers (2002) colour palette

Directed by Dewey Nicks · Shot by James Bagdonas

Slackers (2002), shot by James Bagdonas, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 153 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f302f), covering 17.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.497 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.172 — more saturated than 14% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.399 — brighter than 39% of ranked films

Measured across 153 frames. See the frames on the Slackers page →

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