Unity (not the bad video game)

Unity
Gestalt
A unified configuration or pattern of visual elements whose properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.
But that's boring and hard to understand. Basically it's the patter you find in something that makes you feel a certain way about the image. It's all based on opinion.

In this scene, happiness is glowing as she does in the rest of the movie. The fact that she glows makes the colors around her blend in reminding me of  warm fuzzy feeling which is what she's supposed to convey. She has a gestalt of happiness.

Proximity
It's basically the feeling of unity through grouping together. Placing objects in a frame closer together give the impression that they are somehow related.























Through the grouping together of all the bird in this shot, You know that they're are a group. They stick together they are a unit.

Repetition
As the term implies, something simply repeats in various parts of the design to relate the parts to each other. The element that repeats may be almost anything: a color, a shape, a texture, a direction, or an angle.
















Through almost copy and pasting the moon fish from finding Nemo AND placing them in close PROXIMITY to each other you know they they are related in some way and therefor have 'unity'.

Continuation
A line or edge that continues from one form to another, allowing the eye to move smoothly through a composition.
Pretty self-explanatory.

At the risk of overusing this movie, the orbs on the wall are an excellent representation of continuation. If you pick a row it's very easy to follow that row looking at each orb but only through the combination of all the rows do you see that it's a wall.

The Grid 
It's also pretty self-explanatory.

It's very apparent that this is a good example of a grid, minus the center division.

Varied Repetition
It's the same as repetition but with a slight difference between the individual products.

The balloons while very similar are slightly different in color making it repetition but varied.

Narrative Artwork 
Pretty easy concept; The story that is told in an artwork.





























This very sad scene completely tells the story of their inability to conceive a child.
Don't worry. I hate myself for choosing this scene.