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The Selfish Giant (2013) colour palette

Directed by Clio Barnard · Shot by Mike Eley

The Selfish Giant (2013), shot by Mike Eley, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 43 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31302f), covering 17.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.386 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.136 — more saturated than 7% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.36 — brighter than 14% of ranked films

Measured across 43 frames. See the frames on the The Selfish Giant page →

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