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Winter’s Bone (2010) colour palette

Directed by Debra Granik · Shot by Michael McDonough

Winter’s Bone (2010), shot by Michael McDonough, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 59 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#302f2e), covering 17.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.522 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.143 — more saturated than 8% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.397 — brighter than 39% of ranked films

Measured across 59 frames. See the frames on the Winter’s Bone page →

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