Movie colour palettes

The Gift poster

The Gift (2015) colour palette

Directed by Joel Edgerton · Shot by Eduard Grau

The Gift (2015), shot by Eduard Grau, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 48 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2e2e2f), covering 15.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.312 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.147 — more saturated than 8% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.404 — brighter than 42% of ranked films

Measured across 48 frames. See the frames on the The Gift page →

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