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B rolls

B rolls is the plural of B roll.

Meaning of B roll

Noun

B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about B rolls

What is B rolls the plural of?
B rolls is the plural of B roll.

Words near B rolls in the dictionary

  1. B plot
  2. B plots
  3. B road
  4. B roads
  5. B roll
  6. B rolls
  7. b sharp
  8. b sharps
  9. B stories
  10. B story
  11. B team

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