B roll

See also: B-roll, Broll, and broll

English

Alternative forms

• B-roll

Noun

B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)

1. (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.

Coordinate terms

• A roll

Translations

supplemental or alternative footage

• Russian: подсъёмка f (podsʺjómka)