It’s not until quite late in the process when I get the final list of names, by which point, the graphics have been made, so I tend to not worry too much about who appears where and how long they are going to be up for. How does Kleinman decide which names get to appear over which graphics and can he save the best bit for when his own name appears? “One forgets that the title sequence is just a lovely excuse to have the names of the people who worked on the films and celebrate their work as best as possible and, as long as it’s not boring, I’m allowed to create some pictures to put with them.” When asked if there are specific rules about where most of the names have to appear Kleinman explains that “the list of names actually changes and the order of the names can move up and down. Whether anybody else picks up on those nuances we’ll have to see.” That’s how we get Britannia crumbling at the beginning but also it harks back to GoldenEye with the Soviet Union statues crumbling. Bond is almost fighting against his own side. Britain is doing something which isn’t great, creating this technology which was actually quite maleficent and Bond is almost fighting against that. One of the themes in the film is that M has slightly lost his way and it’s not Britain’s finest hour. On one hand it’s Britannia falling down and breaking apart. The falling statues at the beginning has two ideas weaved around it. “There are quite a few little nods to things from years gone by. I’m actually using modern technology in order to make it look like it used to before the technology came along.”Īs with all of Kleinman’s work on Bond the No Time To Die credits feature an array of compelling motifs and multiple layers of symbolism. I had to put on artificial film grain and an artificial weave to make it look like film. I had to shoot on video to make it look retro. I couldn’t actually shoot on film because some of the things I worked on were too technical to shoot on film. It’s entirely ironic though because Cary wanted to shoot the movie on film and he was very into it having a retro feel to the quality of the visuals. How did Kleinman find working with Fukunaga compared to the other 007 directors he’s worked with? “Cary was great, he had some great ideas and gave good feedback which helps in the collaborative process. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to create the sequence. Kleinman worked closely with director Cary Joji Fukunaga and producers Michael G. I began to think, ‘What would James Bond’s DNA look like? It’s made of guns!’ Bond is an assassin and once I saw the structure of the double helix with the Walther PPKs firing, with the trails of the bullets making the faces of the people he’s come across in the past and killing being in his DNA, I realised I had the perfect hook and a moment to pin everything onto.” I’ve got the hang of it’ on No Time To Die was when I thought about the connection to the Heracles virus, a swarm of microscopic nanobots that infect Bond’s DNA which, without wishing to spoil anything, becomes crucial towards the end of the film’s storyline. “I think the moment when I started to think, ‘Ah, I’ve got it. That video was my salute to the title sequences on James Bond, which I had always liked.”Īfter working on all but one 007 film since 1995’s GoldenEye, where does Kleinman start when coming up with the theme for a new Bond title sequence? “I start with the script and look for moments that stand out,” he explains. I used to do quite a lot of videos and because of that I got asked to do the music video for Licence To Kill by Gladys Knight. When MTV got started, a lot of feature films used MTV and videos as a way, not only of publicising the songs and the bands but also the films. “I was involved in art and music and was in the right place at the right time to start doing music videos in the early 1980s. “I was always a fan of the title sequences,” he explains. Since 1995, Daniel Kleinman has designed eight iconic James Bond movie title sequences, including the opening to the latest 007 adventure No Time To Die. Insider The Art Of The Title Sequence Daniel Kleinman on 25 years of creating 007 title sequences
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