The amateur film

Karel Marks

Most members of SMD expressed themselves in creative way already at basic school but not me. I used to be surrounded by people that professed skateboarding, Counter-Strike and it wasn’t much perspective. And discussing taking control over our country, earth, space. I don’t want to hear about it no more...

Yet there was a breaktrough – my parents got a camera that was able to film a short clip. To be honest, at that time I didn’t know it would be so magnificent event. My first clips were naturally repulsive – I had no conception and I filmed everything that was around me. With no idea.

But all the sudden (or gradually?) I had an idea creating my own musical clip. I attended the last class at basic school. My vision was as follows: to put the camera on the table, turn up the music and pretend that I’m the singer who sings a song which is, in fact, singing by real one. And a result? Who cares...?

Before filming I had passed entrance exam and then... there was nothing at all. My steps led to the famous Grammar school. I wasn’t aware of it but I was waiting for our ski-course. On February our class went to the mountains and there I found out that I met someone who was good at film – Mr. Silas. Actually he create our first clip, strictly speaking, something like our pre-clip (talking about SMD). Mr. Silas cut it and added the popular song „On My Head“ from Dan Barta (from the film Snowboardaci).

Our cooperation could started. I proposed to take my idea into practice but everyone was laughing. So I created a demo and Mr. Silas changed his mind and we filmed our first SMD clip...