Act Structure

The Act structure is the discussion of how these three parts should be performed, this shows that the beginning of the film should be roughly around 20% of the film with the middle of the film taking up 65% and the finale taking around 15% of the story.

Unrestricted vs Restricted structure

The difference between this two would be the disclosure of information throughout the media, this can be best explained through by saying that an unrestricted structure explains the entire story from the very beginning, you know who is responsible for certain events and why they performed this act where-as a restricted structure works to keep the audience under a real sense of tension in which not even the viewers know who is responsible and the story slowly goes over the events that occurred to reveal what really happened within the plot. Crime commonly uses both of these themes with some crime dramas presenting the murderer from the very beginning and allowing the audience to watch the detectives slowly go over the case where as other crime dramas keep all the facts from the audience so that they, in turn, find themselves in the very same shoes as the protagonist.

Sympathy vs, Empathy

This is the effect that the characters and story have on the audience and this can effect whether you feel sympathy for the character i.e. if something terrible happens to the protagonist, you feel sad for the character whereas empathy for the character is to find yourself in their very shoes, this allows you to feel a deeper link with the character and this makes empathy a far more powerful tool, however, this can be incredibly hard to perform and is very rarely used in film.

Logical vs. Illogical 





This is the use of explanation in the universe and story set up by the films, sci-fi films are well known for this as they go into massive amounts of detail to explain every piece of technology and history, a good example of this would be Alien, where even the aliens themselves despite being a new creature to present itself to the protagonists, its biology is given an in depth explanation as well the ship and technology they use during space travel. Deductive however, is providing objects into the plot without really explaining why they are there or why they serve their purpose for instance, a lot of Fantasy's use this structure as they just use the explanation "it was magic or supernatural" but there is no explanation into the whole history behind magic or the abilities performed using this magic.

Inductive vs. Deductive

This is the use of the overall story and it's many components for instance, Inductive is the sense of starting off small and slowly uncovering a far bigger picture, a good example of Inductive would be Drive, a film in which we start out watching over the life of a stunt driver/small time criminal who performs a robbery only to find out that this robbery is really a set up for a much larger crime syndicate. Where as Deductive starts off immediately with a far larger plot but instead focuses in on certain characters or events, a perfect example would be the Transformers films, a film that originally focuses on the war between the Decepticons and the Autobots before then moving in on a small group of Autobots protecting a young protagonist and their relationship.