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Whiplash (2014) colour palette

Directed by Damien Chazelle · Shot by Sharone Meir

Whiplash (2014), shot by Sharone Meir, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is deep yellow (#13130e), covering 11.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.721 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.325 — more saturated than 79% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.353 — brighter than 13% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Whiplash page →

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