New Cinema Reale site goes LIVE!!!

I am very pleased to announce that my new site for my Cinema Reale's is now up and running! I am so excited to get everything else done for my main site as well, but until then, check out this site for an idea for the new style and let me know what you think.  

To my former couples, the clips at the bottom will be rotated frequently, so if you don't see yours down there..it will be up in the rotation soon. If you are reading this and havent written a short testimonial yet, I would appreciate one asap so I can add it to your clip. :)

greg + marian -the riviera country club

An incredible day! Greg and Marian are such a fun-loving couple. Marian was so unbelievably relaxed and was the one who was having to tell everyone else to mellow out! They had a Catholic Ceremony at Saint Martin of Tours, and then had a traditional Korean Pae Baek ceremony afterwards.

Also got to work with Me Ra Koh and her hubby Brian. Fabulous couple to work along side. I always love when I get hooked up with photogs like this.

Bride left it up to me to choose the song I wanted to use. I went with James Blunt's "High". Enjoy.

michael + chantal-turnip rose

So, feeling inspired by my trip to Orlando, I was very anxious to shoot this wedding and it did not disappoint. The weather held up for most of the day and I was able to get some great shots. Got to work with my buddy Jim Kennedy again which is always nice. Great guy who does phenomenal work.

A beautiful couple inside and out, Chantal and Michael were truly a pleasure to be around on their wedding day. This was a couple who was truly excited about getting married and it showed in the various smiles, laughs and tears that we captured. Cinema Reale got a great reaction..one of the best we have had in awhile. The song is slow but very sweet, Amel Larrieux's "Make Me Whole".

Daniel Boswell Chosen by Event DV Magazine Top 25 Hottest & Most Influencial Videographers

I am very pleased and honored to announce that EventDV magazine has named me to their Top25 All Star Team this year! The list is filled with so many incredibly talented people (many of whom are my friends) so it was truly a great honor to be added this year! I am in Orlando right now for the convention/awards banquet and will have more details and pics to follow! Here is the official press release:

MADISON, WI--January 21, 2008—Today EventDV magazine unveiled the 2007 EventDV 25, and Daniel Boswell of dvArtistry was named to the list as one of the 25 hottest and most influential event videographers in the business. The honorees were announced in the February 2008 issue of EventDV, and were recognized on Monday, January 21 in a special awards presentation during the opening night gala of the 4EVER Group’s Video 08 convention in Orlando, Florida.

“As the event video industry’s one and only all-star team, the EventDV 25 gives us the opportunity to recognize those videographers who are wielding the most influence today, through their innovative work, educational efforts, and outreach to other videographers,” said EventDV Editor-in-Chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly. “To make sure we recognized the right people, we turned the selection process entirely over to the ‘fans,’ and let our readers pick the team. Over the two-month online voting process, the readers cast well over a thousand votes, and our all-star team emerged.”

In addition to voting for their selections, readers had the opportunity to defend their choices with a brief description of their chosen candidate’s merits. Of Daniel Boswell, voters wrote, “Daniel's shooting and editing style make him stand out from the rest. His recent bridal elegance work has turned that format on it's ear”


EventDV, the Authority for Event Videographers, is published monthly by Information Today, Inc. and read by over 27,000 event videographers and independent video producers around the world. For more information on EventDV, visit www.eventdv.net

jaime + eric- mission inn

This was one of those "circled on my calendar" weddings. The bride , Jaime, is a visual effects coordinator with a mile long list of Hollywood movie credits. This of course provided a lot of personal incentive for me to make sure I did something extra good for this couple.

Gauging by their tearful reaction, I think I did ok. :)

Because Jaime and Eric are such gracious people, I was extremely gratified by their reaction to the video. Led Zep's classic "Thank You"

ellen + sam - occidental college

I love this couple. Honestly. Just a wonderfully genuine, warm, fun-loving couple. I wanted to create something that reflected them and what they were about. And after 4 straight weeks of Shania Twain, I was so looking fwd to doing this wedding as they chose one of my favorite songs, Howie Day's "Collide" for their Cinema Reale'. (Sorry my Shania brides!)

Knowing they were having another reception in TX next week, I tried something a little different and added some vows to the beginning to give it a little more depth and substance.

One of my favorite edits of the year thus far. Enjoy!

anton + lisa - pacific palms

Anton and Lisa; another in a long line of awesome couples that Carolyn Chen from The Special Day. Carolyn always seems to hook me up with the best couples and Anton and Lisa were no different.

Carolyn and her crew, as always, made the day run flawlessly. As someone who does same day edits almost every wedding, it is always nice to know that things will run smoothly in the midst of the craziness of putting together a clip to show at the reception.

Though I had played a couple golf tournaments there, I had never shot a wedding at the Pacific Palms Hotel. I must say, I really enjoyed the set-up there. They had a gorgeous bluff location for the ceremony (with a view that even the fires could not ruin) They also had a very big reception hall complete with a huge 15 foot screen to show their clip.

Being a HUGE USC fan, the highlight of the night for me was having the USC marching band come in and perform for the couple and their guests.

Continuing with my "All Shania October" theme, Anton & Lisa chose the song "Forever & For Always". (Again , not one of my favorite songs, but the couple loved it and that's all that matters! )

An email from the couple:

"WOW! Thanks for the wonderful photo montage and cinema reale! We loved our Shania song with the edited video. We thought everything was perfect! :-) Our guests were amazed by the same day edit and can't stop talking about it. We especially loved the awesome camera angles. Thank you so so much! Anton & Lisa" )

donna + scott - spanish hills country club

Wow. This was a special day for two very special people and their friends and families. The Spanish Hills Country Club is such a beautiful place to host a wedding and everyone there was so accommodating and helpful. Hallie coordinated it and did a fine job of keeping everyone loose. I also got a chance to work with photographers Harrison & Kim Douglas and their son JD. They were so down to earth and just fun people to be around. This made the day that much more enjoyable.

I have to admit, when Donna first told me she wanted Shania Twain for her Cinema Reale, I wasn't too excited about using it. (I am not a big fan of hers!) She even got one of her music producer friends to make her a special version of the song. And in all honesty, it fit the footage perfectly.

There were a lot of special moments caught and my favs are the ones with their kids. Especially little Jackie who stole the show.

sishir + kristi - the berkeley

Kristi and Sishir are warm, genuine, sweet people. It was such a blast to be around them and their wonderful families and friends. They were both so relaxed and seemed to be soaking in every moment. I love shooting couples like this. It definitely makes my job so much easier.

For their Cinema Reale, we went with a couple of beautiful instrumentals.

johnny + elicia - casa romantica

Elicia and Johnny are very sweet couple and very much loved by their family and friends. There was a lot of emotion at this wedding with some of the most heartfelt toasts I have ever heard given by their bridal party and families.

This clip is somewhat unique because they wanted Big & Rich's "Lost in This Moment" as their song but they also wanted to do some special voice overs for each other to be played back for their Cinema Reale. We decided to use some instrumental for the beginning with their recorded sentiments and then go into the song.

To end this special night, the bride and groom drove off on a Harley complete with his and her custom helmets!