Structure and Genre

From the starting point of a story till it’s ending point, it has got many elements of ascending, descending and fast moving build ups which is called the ‘structure of the film’. While writing the film script, we divide those different phases into many parts in a planned way.
This kind of planning and division make an ideal structure of a film mainly into three parts which could be shown in the following format.

        Act I (page 1-30)            Act II (page 31-60)             Act III (page 61-90)
      Beginning    Middle End
      Introduction    disturbance, struggle, conflict     pre-climax             resolution

   Inciting Incident Point of No Return

According to the above format of a film script, it is generally written within 120 pages where the Act I (the beginning part) contains 30 pages; Act II (the middle part) contains 60 pages and the Act III (the end part) contains 30 pages. But the duration (time) could be little less or little more than the above mentioned time and pages.
In the beginning part (act I), the characters of the story, place, time, situation and the economic and social background, etc. are introduced whereas in the middle part (act II) contains the introduction of the ‘Antagonist’ and the main problem of the story is inserted into it. As well, in the 2nd part the elements of disturbances, the struggle, inciting incident, conflict and the point of no return are also included. And in the end part (act III) of the structure, ascending and descending points of the conflicts, the crisis, catharsis, pre-climax, climax and resolution are included.
In this type of internationally accepted structure of the film another important subject has got a deep relation; that is; the film genre.
We all know that film making is a work of art and any kind of creative art has got the quality of its own origin, its own features and own qualities. Having such different origin, features and qualities every film looks different than other. Accepting this fact, the international film world has named the different kind of characters of film as ‘Genre’. We can cite few examples of different genres as the epic film, historical film, literary film, science fiction film, horror film, neo-realist film, western film, war film, new wave film, etc.
And the different kinds of film also have their own types of build-up and structure which also have included the traditional pattern of the film structure. Though the different types of genres have their own kind of structure, they are all bound to remain according to the internationally accepted pattern structure of a film regarding the time frame and the construction of the ascending, descending of the events and incidents of its dramatic format.
It is important to note, as the structure of the film allows making the structure little less or little more in terms of the length (duration) of a certain part like Act I, Act II and Act III, the film director is also free to adjust the contemporary and the modern happenings (or, changed situations because of the new and modern development) in the structure of the Genre films as well.
To explain it more clearly, we can change only a little timing of any part of the structure; or, we can adjust and write the 30 pages story either within 28 pages 32 pages even. Likewise, we can bring a little change while presenting the genre film making more timely and contemporary because of the changes brought by the modern scientific or any kind of development appeared in the society, the developed consciousness of the people and understanding their all kinds of situations.
In fact, the film structure and the film genre are co-related, they go together; and one cannot exist without the other.