“The Anniversary” Trailer

John Campea 94 Comments

Hey there guys. As most of you know for the last year I’ve been working on my first feature length comedy called “The Anniversary”. I want to thank all of you for your amazing support and encouragement as I embarked on this project in which I had no idea what the hell I was doing. But with the help of some fantastic people we actually pulled it off.

This is not the “OFFICIAL” trailer (there is a green band one coming in the near future) but it does give you the first look at the movie:

“The Anniversary” Trailer from campea on Vimeo.

More information of the film can be found at www.the-anniversary.com

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  • Ryan

    This is a little late, but I happened to be looking through the archives…

    First let me say this: I applaud the fact that this was made and for so cheap. Congrats. I’m still young but I’m going to be a filmmaker one day, and films like this give me hope that a good looking film can be made on a shoestring budget.

    However, I’d have to agree with RansomBetty, who seems to be the only honest person in here. When you make your first film, it could catapult your career, or effectively kill your dreams. If you’re going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on such a risk, you should probably make it fairly different than the norm. Put all of your heart into it. Put all of your passion into it. Put some balls into it. If you can, stir up some controversy. There’s no better way to get your name out there than inciting some controversy. I know John is a helluva passionate guy, and I can tell he could knock out an incredible film if he wanted to, so why didn’t he?

    In the end, a boring film made for 50 grand is no different than a boring film made for 5 million.

  • http://patroz.blogspot.com/ Patto

    Looks amazing!

  • http://karthik82.com Karthik Abhiram

    Great trailer, John. Like some others have mentioned, I got a Kevin Smith vibe from this. Congratulations on completing a film and I hope I will eventually get to see “The Anniversary” in my part of the world :)

  • Ralph Eggleston

    John,

    Just one question. How many frames per second (FPS) was this film shot at? The cinematography looks pretty good (especially during the outside shots) but it looks like an infomercial at times. Do you know what lenses your DP used? Hopefully only the trailer looks like this. I’m not saying that the film looks like shit because it doesn’t. I’m just confused because wasn’t this shot on the RED 4K camera?

    • Nate

      It’s because the DP wasn’t top-notch stuff. Most of these scenes look over or under lit, and the infomercialness comes from poor framing. But for 50k John did a pretty good job of getting real actors and putting together a professional looking film. A few lines in there made me cringe — the bit about damaged things deserving love — but overall looks good.

  • Edvin

    wow on second reading, that sounded so condescending.

    Really didn’t mean it like that.

    I myself am applying for filmschool this year so it was meant as a compliment to a fellow aspiring filmmaker.

  • Edvin

    Looks good John.
    Your movie looks to be just as good as a movie that someone made for their filmschool graduation.
    And you have not gone to filmschool I gather :)
    So there is def. a filmmaker in you.
    Hope you make something of yourself.

    Loved your documentary. You gathered some very good interviews, and had me glued to the seat the entire time.

    Hope you keep bettering your craft, and there will be no stopping you.

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