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Directors Tell the Story
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Directors Tell the Story

by Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli
January 2013
Beginner
326 pages
8h 34m
English
Focal Press
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Chapter 11

Below the Line

The classification of “below the line” refers to the staff, crew, and equipment suppliers who are literally below a line on a production budget. The people who are above the line are the writer, producers, director, and actors. The “above the line” costs are—once negotiated—set in stone. The below-the-line costs are malleable (although there are union minimum salaries established) until production starts, and therefore the producer and unit production manager (UPM) will do their best to maintain cost control.

Yet those people are no less valuable. They are the ones with whom the director works during production and postproduction on a daily basis. They are your crew—the ones who make your vision become a physical reality. ...

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