Movie colour palettes

The New Boy poster

The New Boy (2023) colour palette

Directed by Warwick Thornton · Shot by Warwick Thornton

The New Boy (2023), shot by Warwick Thornton, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is deep orange (#362c28), covering 7.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.92 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.28 — more saturated than 63% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.422 — brighter than 55% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the The New Boy page →

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