infamous for being “mean”. Often we were not greeted with the warmest of welcomes. The goings- on of the authentic street hustlers of the neighborhood didn’t stop around our production and there were times it seemed that life and the environment around us did in fact imitate art. There were challenges and roadblocks to overcome filming in these locations, but that didn’t stop us. We kept filming even when the production van was broken into and prop guns and supplies were stolen. We dusted ourselves off, replaced what we could, and kept going.
Post production lasted a total of 3 months with over 26 hours of footage shot between two cameras. The film was being cut and scored simultaneously. The digital effects were the most tedious in Post. It was decided early on, due to the environment we were shooting in, to use digital effects for the muzzle flashes of the