14 budget terms every producer should know cold. Get them wrong → you eat the overage. ATL. BTL. Top sheet. Fringe. Global. Contingency. Hot costs. EFC. Lock. Change order. + more inside. This is the vocabulary that separates a budget that holds from one that bleeds. Whether you’re shooting a $5K spec, a $50K commercial, or a $5M doc — same language, same stakes. #filmmaking #filmproduction #lineproducer #filmbudget #productionmanager