The Shining second unit opening helicopter sequence. Also the civil war opening to the film “Love” by angels and airwaves. Although not sure if that’s classed as B roll?
My experience on getting B-rolls for my upcoming short film. 1. Most important things are climate, time and place you are shooting for B-roll, if you are shooting eshtablishment shot for a restaurant in morning and if the scene is evening, it will not match. Same goes with climate, if your next scene is cloudy or rainy and if you have a scene transition shot that is sunny, it will not match. Keep entire theme of your story in mind while shooting it, you can tell a story even with B-rolls and not just for scene transitions or cutaways. Best example is Manchester By sea, how they use climate and the landscape to communicate protagonist's emotions. 2. Have B-Roll Stocks with you if you are a filmmaker, go out and shoot something when you have free time and store it in your archieves, you never know which footage can be used to enhance the story, the magic happens in editing. 3. Collaborate with your fellow filmmakers and share footages with them, I remember listening to Blade runner audio commentary by Ridley scott where he says he borrowed footages for it from Stanley kubrick which was shot for 2001. 4. Keep an open mind, I was very stubborn and denied in the beginning when my DP suggested a stock footage for a shot, I said, what's the purpose of saying it my film if someone's footage is there in my film. Later in the post, the one we shot was not that good and that stock footage suggested made perfect sense and I then I realised that there is nothing wrong using stock footages, end of the day, it is your film and your story. Martin scorsese had a local filmmaker shoot the wig commercial in goodfellas, a war scene in Inglorius basterds was not shot by QT, If pure filmmakers like them did it then I can do it as well. 5. Don't stick to high FPS all the time, know your story and plan it accordingly. Have a rough cut of the entire film in your mind if possible, it is the best way to get a best B-roll, if not entire movie, atleast scenes that are before and after in the story. 6. Shots used for Montage also come under B-roll category depending on the montage. It is the toughest B-roll to shoot, try to capture many angles, FPS and lens possible, you never know what works in editing. More footages you have, better the final product. 7. One more important thing is timing. For example, If a character sees from left to right in a specific speed, your B-roll ahould be in same speed. If you do a quick pan, and if the character looks slowly then the cutaway is unusable, if you try to slow the footage in post, it will look ugly. so while shooting character cutaway, plan the speed and angle from character point of view. 8. If you are shooting a scene in a specific area, try to get a few shots around that place as a back up if you have time. You can use them to create an ambience for the scene. Not neccesarily major, even small things like insects moving in desert in Breaking Bad or tap water dripping etc. You may not have that in mind while storyboarding or may not have planned to have it but again like I said before, you never know what works in editing. 9. B-rolls was my least priority before the shoot but since I am editing now, I came to know how much important it is and how much of a quality it can bring to your project and enhances your storytelling. It is as important as shooting major sequence and so don't take it for granted, don't trust your DP or assistants blindly to shoot your B-rolls. I just told my DP to shoot a couple and went on concentrating on other things on set and I regret now in post. You should know the look and feel of every frame of your project and so be behind the camera for every frame you shoot for your project. 10. Last but not least, It may sound cliched in filmmaking world but the best way to learn anything in filmmaking is by making. Videos like these or any channels, courses and masterclasses for that matter, will help you with basics and get started but the real knowledge of filmmaking only comes by making films. Most of it is solving problems is real time and there is no theory to follow it, it only comes by experience. I Hope this is helpful, Best of luck guys. Edit: Guys, avoid stocks as much as possible. Once it is graded, it is more likely to stand out and look wierd. Try to go and reshoot if you didn't get anything properly, make sure it is properly planned before shoot and try to avoid reshoot as much as possible.
Thanks for using my footage and not even giving credit to my channel...(and all the other content creators that are seen in this)..Oh, you're a company with a commercial intention I see..good to know.
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In the era of Peter McKinnon, Matti Happoja, Sam Colder, Parker Welbeck, Daniel Schiffer, JR Ali, Brandon Li, Ben TK, Matt Komo: everybody is so equipped with B-Roll. They kinda drive a generation to realize the definition of B-Roll and it's importance. Though, I despise the overuse of this term.
Amen on the over use. I like much of Daniel Schiffer but he's guilty of beating "B roll" to death for shots that are absolutely not B roll. Instead they are some of the best scenes in the final product.
We're in the middle of filming for our short film and our director casually mentioned the word "B-roll" I didn't know what it was so I asked someone from the prod team. I want to understand our director more to help out and this video helped a lot thank you!
At the beginning of the first few seconds i was like why is he explaining in a complicated manner, but after watching the whole video i changed my perception that we need give ourselves time to understand the things. your explanation makes me understood the total concept of b-roll. Thank you bro!
It's really very helpful! Thank you! Am a beginner to this realm of videography and editing and really wanna pursue it down! But I am quite disheartened to see people not giving much attention to these works. I mean, it's really a very difficult job to capture those moments and put them in a really fancy way. But people take that for granted and do not recognize the efforts behind it. One would be seeing like 1M likes in some worthless videos which might involve a hot chick waving throughout the video and nothing else! Leaving all that behind, really good work man! I have been following a lot of videographers on RU-vid! All of you are wonderful!
I think it's important to emphasize that a cinematic look has nothing to do with using a gimbal or shooting slow mo. They surely are important tools to be creative with and they really can create a cinematic look... if they work to a purpose. The way you approached it made it seem like the camera movement or the stabilization will tell the stories themselves. And to be honest I found those tree shots terrible, not telling any stories, not cinematic at all.
agree. thats why i kinda of fed up and disgusted when everybody shoot a fkn Travel VLOG and upload it to RU-vid and claims it it was a CINEMATIC Video. lool.
@@mrsnoo86 whats a cinematic video...... I wanna start shooting and such videos are the only source that i can access to learn cinematography. Are you saying that B-Rolls in travel vlogs aren't good or accurate?
1:16 The "Mit out Sound" legend Some of the early directors in Hollywood, whose first language was German, had trouble with the sound with. So instead of saying, " we are recording this scene "without sound" the words came out "We are recording this scene mitout sound. Because this word corruption, MOS means "without sound"
that was really helpful. I just learnt this word today and good I landed on your video.. it was quite insightful. I was trying to create better painting tutorials. I am sure I am going to find more tips and techniques to better my videos. thanks a ton!!! keep up the good work.
01:33 I really like that idea for a dolly. Now I just need someone to push me around on my office chair. Also, I'm brand new to filmmaking - how are you getting that high off the ground around 06:20? A crane?
gimbals make it cinematic? these a storytelling tools and every movie uses different techniques from handheld to steadicam, so consider changing up the verbage
B-Roll A-Roll: 메인 스토리나 주제와 관련이 있는 씬 B-Roll: 스토리의 간격을 좁히기 위한 삽입 화면 B-Roll이 A-Roll의 실수나, 점프컷을 숨기고 비주얼적으로 스토리를 설명하고 비주얼 모티프로 스토리를 발전시킬 수 있음 M.O.S: 소리가 없는 것 1. Plan It 2. Work Smart Not Hard 3. Maximize Your Time ex. Depth f 1.4: 배경의 모든 것들이 번지면서 아름다운 배경을 만들 수 있음 Slow Motion 60-120 FPS
OK! There's hope! I'm ready to heave my breakfast from the amount of "B roll" and "cinematic" connotations out now that distort what they mean. Like still photographers are getting sick of hearing about "bokeh." Sure, I'm old enough to be that guy that yells "and get off my lawn!" except I live in a big, sky lit loft away from the city. No lawn. I had this discussion with a few other guys that have been there, done that. Entertainment, news and commercial (product/machinery/vehicle) film and video. The consensus was we remembered B roll was something you assigned to a junior hand to give them time with the camera. Sometimes there only was one camera. You'd be handed the minimum of essential gear and possibly a list of things the producer/director would like to have so if the project called for 15 minutes, you could assemble a good looking 15 min. You would do this on down periods when the bigger fish were taking a break or having a meeting. In other words, show me what you can get but don't be all day at it; we need you back here at 3 p.m. I see RU-vids now of staged scenes rehearsed over and over to get the angles right and only then bring on the main talent to be on camera doing repetitious moves for 5 takes needing a $#it ton of gear, and it's called B roll. SMH.
i'm a noob (that's why I'm here) but when comparing those two shots, no mention of the difference in music used or color grading and how they affect the mood? THe first shot to the root could be a lot less ominous if you had used the pleasant music and graded it warmer.
