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Movie colour palettes

Sunshine poster

Sunshine colour palette

Directed by Danny Boyle · Shot by Alwin H. Küchler

Sunshine, shot by Alwin H. Küchler, runs vivid and warm, measured across 68 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is near black (#0b0c0a), covering 9.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.38 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

vivid

0.478 — more saturated than 96% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.396 — brighter than 38% of ranked films

Measured across 68 frames. See the frames on the Sunshine page →

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