Reflection week 4

B-roll is extremely important when making a documentary. B-roll are clips that are not very specific and are basically used to make the presentation more interesting and to visualize a point you are trying to make. We have several long interviews in our documentary so we used B-roll to keep the audience interested in what we are trying to say. For example if your interview is talking about pizza it’s a very good idea to add in some B-roll of pizza or something to attract the eye of the audience to keep them interested. We asked the president what outside opinions of the club may be. His answer is about thirty seconds and would be really distracting if we had not put B-roll in it. When he explains himself we put two clips in so we can help the viewer’s visualize what he is talking about. When he is talking about the outside opinion on how the members in the club just sit in dark rooms and play LOL we snap to Jim sitting in a room playing the game. Again this helps the audience visualize what we are trying to convey. Another example in the same interview is when we talk about how people think they are all huge nerds and we go to a clip of someone who would be seen as a nerd. We have several more interviews toured the end of our presentation that still need B-roll to make them more effective.

Not adding B-roll to these parts at the end would be very bad, since generally the audience would tend to get bored toured the end of the piece.