What is a Line Producer?
Often hired almost immediately by the Producers and Executive Producers, Line Producers are responsible for the financial side of any Film or TV production. The name of the job originates from the difference between below-the-line and above-the-line cost of productions.
In order to do so, they break down the script into a shooting timetable, determining how long each shooting will take and all the relative expenses. Once the timetable is complete, they compute a provisional budget so that the producer can start raising funds for the film to go into pre-production.