Theorist- Levi- Strauss

Binary opposition

In the mid-20th century, two major European academic thinkers, Claude Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes, had the important insight that the way we understand certain words depends not so much on any meaning they themselves directly contain, but much more by our understanding of the difference between the word and its 'opposite' or, as they called it 'binary opposite'. They realised that words merely act as symbols for society's ideas and that the meaning of words, therefore, was a relationship rather than a fixed thing: a relationship between opposing ideas.
For example, our understanding of the word 'coward' surely depends on the difference between that word and its opposing idea, that of a 'hero'.  http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/popups/opposition.htm,

Now I understand what binary opposition means it's basically the complete opposite for example night and day, girl and boy, villain and hero. For my film, I need the gender opposites and I want the villain to be a man and the victim to be a woman. I want the happy section to be filmed during day/ evening time, and I want the scene where she wakes up early in the morning so that is a binary opposition in itself, also I want a binary opposition in the moods for example, it starts off peaceful and happy and then progresses and switches to a tense quite scary mood.