Steven Spielberg has been my favourite filmmaker for the last decade. He has a way of inspiring emotions in the audience in ways that not many filmmakers can. I love the way he he combines images and sound to have the maximum impact— Krishna Bala Shenoi
Bengaluru:
A 19-year-old Bengaluru student was paid the ultimate compliment on Wednesday when his hero Steven Spielberg wrote him a letter of appreciation after his own animated tribute caught the legendary film maker’s eye.
The handwritten letter of appreciation from Spielberg sees him use the word ‘impress’ not once, but twice.
“Getting this letter from my childhood hero was such a shock,” said an ecstatic Krishna Bala Shenoi, second year student at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, who couldn’t contain his excitement.
“Getting this letter from my hero was such a shock, I was shivering. My knees were wobbly. I am so thankful to Steven Spielberg for being gracious enough to have taken the time to write me such a kind letter. I am convinced that his goodness isn’t restricted to just his films,” says Krishna Bala Shenoi, Second Year of Foundation Studies Programme at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.
Steven Spielberg’s hand-written letter addressed to Krishna Bala Shenoi
He has admired filmmaker Steven Spielberg since he was a child and now he has received a handwritten letter of appreciation from the man himself.
The 19-year-old, who compelled Spielberg to use the word “impress” twice in his letter in appreciation of his animation film, does not want to stop at animation. He wants to be a filmmaker like his hero.
“I haven’t been able to capture my awe for him. And therefore, I decided to create this animated tribute to him. It took me four months to make the video. I worked on it whenever I was free from college work. I have used a technique called rotoscoping, which involved drawing over the original video, which was, in this case, my favourite images from Spielberg’s movies. But this was only for my hero. In the long run, I want to make films,” says Krishna.
“I’ve been interested in filmmaking ever since I began watching films, when I was around eight years old. My mother introduced me to great movies like Superman, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc.
“I started making short movies with an old Sony camcorder, building blocks, clay models, and whatever I could find, employing very rough stop-motion animation techniques,” Krishna adds.
He is also the youngest Far-Flung Correspondent on film critic Roger Ebert’s blog. “In 2010, the world’s most read film critic, Roger Ebert, contacted me via e-mail after seeing my films and writing on the internet, and Invited me to the Foreign Correspondents’ blog on his website.
The Foreign Correspondents blog is a feature of Roger Ebert’s Journal in which film commentators from all over the world contribute their video reviews, observations, musings, philosophies and pronouncements. Another foreign correspondent for Ebert’s blog, Anath White, sent my video to Lois Burwell, a make-up artist who has worked with Spielberg on films like Lincoln, and Saving Private Ryan, who passed it on to Spielberg.
source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / Home> Entertainment> Hollywood /DC / March 08th, 2013
