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Upgrade (2018) colour palette

Directed by Leigh Whannell · Shot by Stefan Duscio

The main colours of Upgrade (2018) are deep cyan (#122a2a), deep red (#2c1711), pale blue (#f5f7f9) and deep blue (#0d1429), over a near-black base: a balanced, natural palette, measured across the film's frames.

Upgrade (2018), shot by Stefan Duscio, runs natural and balanced, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is near black (#0e0f10), covering 17.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

balanced

-0.018 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.393 — more saturated than 90% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.305 — brighter than 1% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Upgrade page →

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