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Zone Troopers poster

Zone Troopers (1985) colour palette

Directed by Danny Bilson · Shot by Mac Ahlberg

Zone Troopers (1985), shot by Mac Ahlberg, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 140 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33322c), covering 19.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.714 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.154 — more saturated than 10% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.362 — brighter than 16% of ranked films

Measured across 140 frames. See the frames on the Zone Troopers page →

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