Below the Line (BTL) Cost – Any production costs that are not included in the Above the line (ATL) Cost. It includes Crew Salary, Publicity, Music rights, all physical production costs like production rental equipment’s etc.
Basically BTL Crew work as hourly wages
Below the line Cost Includes
Money Spent on
- Assistant Director
- Armorer
- Art Director
- Art Deportment Coordinator
- Assistant Accountants
- Best Boy Electric & Grip
- Boom Operator
- Carpenter (s)
- Casting
- Caterers
- Construction
- Costume Designer
- Composer (s)
- Craft Service
- Crew Cost ( People Includes All 3 Stages Of Filmmaking Process)
- Director Of Photography (DOP)
- Dolly Grip
- Gaffer
- Generator Operator
- Graphic Artist
- Greens
- Hair Stylist
- Key Grip
- Line Producer
- Location Manager
- Makeup Artist
- Medic
- Mill
- Office Production Coordinator
- On Set Dressers
- On Set Painters
- Paymaster
- Production Assistant
- Production Staff
- Props
- Sets
- Scenic
- Script Supervisor
- Set Designers
- Set Construction
- Music Licensing
- Sound Engineer
- Stage Manager
- Still Photographer
- Trailers
- Travel Coordinator
- Technical Director (TD)
- Truck, Car Driver (s)
- Unit Production Manager
- Visual Effects Editor
- Wardrobe (Costumers)
- Publicity
- Travel
- Insurance
Etc.
Example:
Below the line Cost
Below table shows that the example of ‘Below the Line Cost’
| Particular | Cost (Rs) |
|---|---|
| Camera Rent | 50,00,000 |
| Below the Line Cast | 20,00,000 |
| Location rent + Permissions | 20,00,000 |
| Publicity | 35,00,000 |
| Music Rights | 60,00,000 |
| Total | 16,70,00,000 |
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