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The Future poster

The Future (2011) colour palette

Directed by Miranda July · Shot by Nikolai von Graevenitz

The Future (2011), shot by Nikolai von Graevenitz, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#302d2b), covering 16.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.747 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.152 — more saturated than 9% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.46 — brighter than 82% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the The Future page →

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