The Curse of the Werewolf, 1961

The first thing we see is a zoom into an extreme close up of a werewolves’ eyes and they’re crying, connoting he is a main part of the storyline and is upset. The score starts here and is sharp and fast. The title appears over the werewolf in large font as it is the most important bit of information. The werewolfs’ eyes look to

the left, still while crying, connoting him to be anxious or paranoid about something. The four main cast members appear next, in a slightly smaller font than the title. Then other cast members names appear under the word ‘with’ again in smaller font, connoting these actors to be less significant than the first four actors whose names appeared.

Then the person in charge of screenplay, in a larger font with copyright and other information much smaller underneath. Next, who the music is by, in the same size font, as this seems to be important.

Then a few other members of the crew and after that the rest of the crew in smaller font connoting them to be less significant.

Then the associate producer in larger font, the producer, and the director, connoting that these three are very important as they showed up each on their own. The werewolfs’ eyes are continually looking from left to right and crying throughout these opening credits connoting that we should pity this creature.

It then fades to black and goes into the establishing shot of two bells ringing and the word ‘Spain’ over top to show us where this story is taking place. It pans across to a high shot to see a man walking towards us, as a narrator is speaking over the top introducing that the man is a beggar and is a bit naive.

It then cuts to a shot as if we were standing with the man, tilted upwards as if to look up at where the bells are ringing.

The beggar walks up to another man and asks him why the bells are ringing, addressing him with ‘senior’ while taking off his hat, connoting him to be very polite. The beggar is standing the bottom of some steps as the other man is at the top, connoting this man to be of greater authority as he is above the beggar looking down on him.

It cuts to a close up of the beggar, he has a dirty face and messy hair, further connoting that he is of low importance.