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Meal penalty

Meaning in film & television, with examples

nounCommon term

In film & television, meal penalty means: An extra payment that may become due under a crew agreement when a meal break is delayed.

In Turkish: geciken yemek molası ek ödemesi

How it is used

Used in production accounts and crew agreements; conditions and amounts vary.

Example sentences

  1. The payroll team checked whether the late lunch triggered a meal penalty.

    The payment depends on the applicable crew agreement.

  2. Our cost report includes a meal penalty from the overnight shoot.

    A scheduling delay appears as an additional production cost.

Common collocations

  • incur a meal penalty
  • meal penalty payment
  • shootTo record a film, scene or shot with a camera. As a noun, a shoot is the period or the day when the filming happens.
  • crewThe people who work behind the camera on a film or TV production, such as the camera, lighting, sound, art, costume and production teams.

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