B-roll
B-roll is the alternative form of B roll.
Meaning of B roll
Noun
B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)
- Supplemental or alternative footage intercut with the main shot, used, for example, to indicate simultaneous action or flashbacks.
- 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.2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018
Forms of B-roll
| plural | B-rolls |
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Questions about B-roll
- What is B-roll the alternative form of?
- B-roll is the alternative form of B roll.
Words near B-roll in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: B-roll (page history and authors); B roll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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