"The
arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or
words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of
comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development."
Hitchcock discusses how film works, and how certain images next to one and other create meaning, and slight alteration in any image can completely change how an audience reacts to certain events, actions or characters.
Juxtaposition also works via sound, the clip above has a huge contrasting juxtaposition between the images shown on screen, and soundtrack in which accompanies the images. The song played in the background is 'what a wonderful world', however the images shown are all negative, like the US invading certain places, and the effects of war, and showing innocent civilians dead, this is all accompanied by 'what a wonderful world', it almost makes a happy wonderful song seem sarcastic.
This is a great example of how well music and images can work well together. This is an epic one minute video of a man walking towards the camera in numerous different locations, but the continuity works so well because the editor has cut with motion, and each time he cuts, the man is slightly further ahead from the last clip. Each cut goes in time with the music, each note hit on the piano means a change of clip, when a note lasts a little bit longer, the clip lasts a little bit longer, the music controls the whole video and dominates, and it works fantastically well.
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