B roll
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)
- (television, film) Supplemental or alternative footage intercut with the main shot, used for example to indicate simultaneous action or flashbacks.
- 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The Bleeding Edge isn’t an audacious or essayistic piece of filmmaking; it’s overstretched with talking-head interviews, montages of corporate videos, and creepy B-roll shots of hospital equipment.
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[edit]supplemental or alternative footage
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