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Total Recall (2012) colour palette

Directed by Len Wiseman · Shot by Paul Cameron

Total Recall (2012), shot by Paul Cameron, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 138 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2e2f2d), covering 20.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.354 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.131 — more saturated than 6% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.378 — brighter than 26% of ranked films

Measured across 138 frames. See the frames on the Total Recall page →

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