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Capturing All 4 Seasons

Valli leaves his home and family for another show on the road.

Eastwood conceived the upbeat finale
after production was already underway,
and decided to close the onscreen festivities with every cast member gathered
on a New York City street, where they
sing and dance to the tune of
"December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)."
Shot on the Warner Bros. back
lot, the sequence called for some craneto-Steadicam-to-crane gymnastics that

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were executed in one long take.
Campanelli enthuses that the result -
which took six takes to perfect - is "one
of my favorite shots I have ever done in
my career.
"It was a kind of Bollywood
number that Clint came up with," the
operator continues. "It started with me
on a Titan crane looking down on the
four boys, who were singing under a

streetlamp. As the crane dropped me
onto the street, I stepped off and continued with the Steadicam around and in
front of them. Then I started drifting
backwards up the street. As the boys
broke into a great musical number they
were joined by every cast member in the
movie - dancing, singing and laughing
along three blocks. At the end of the
street, I stepped back onto the Titan
crane, which had been driven around
the set so I could climb back onto it, and
I rose back into the air to frame the
entire group in a big, wide shot. The
song comes to a great grand finale,
ending as everyone freezes in place."
The filmmakers kept Jersey Boys
in-house at Warner Bros. MPI for the
final digital grade, during which they
worked with colorist Maxine Gervais,
who had also supervised the production's dailies. Gervais used a FlimLight
Baselight Eight system, working in the
native Arri anamorphic (2880x2160)
format for a final 2K finish. "The DI


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