in Oakland, California, for 20 days in July 2012. Scenes were shot at and around the Bay Area Rapid Transit platform
where Grant was killed. BART agreed to let the crew film at the Fruitvale BART station for three four-hour nights.
Most of the platform scenes were shot over the course of two nights. San Quentin State Prison served as a filming location for a flashback scene
with prisoners featured as extras. The film was shot in Super 16 mm format using Arriflex 416 cameras and Zeiss Ultra 16 lenses.
The film includes actual amateur footage of the shooting. Coogler explained the decision:
"That was something that I was initially very firmly against. I didn't want any real footage in the film. But you sometimes have
to take a step back. Being from thethe whole Bart platform scene.
The other element in the score is lots of layered and manipulated guitars sounding almost like haunting pads." Coogler added:
"One thing that we always wanted to be conscious of with the score, was to make sure that it always felt organic.
A lot of the film would play without score, so Ludwig made sure that whenever we brought score in came out of sounds in the environment."
A soundtrack album, Fruitvale Station: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was released digitally on September 24, 2013 and on CD October 15,
2013 through Lakeshore Records.
Promotion
The Weinstein Company commissioned three murals to be painted in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco by well-known street artists Ron English,
Lydia Emily and LNY, in anticipation of the film. Some people questioned having a