Movie colour palettes

Velvet Buzzsaw poster

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) colour palette

Directed by Dan Gilroy · Shot by Robert Elswit

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), shot by Robert Elswit, runs muted and warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is near black (#0d0f10), covering 13.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.291 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.237 — more saturated than 43% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.375 — brighter than 23% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Velvet Buzzsaw page →

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