ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

B-roll

B-roll is like the cool extra footage that we see in movies and videos. You know when you watch a movie and it changes to a scene that's not the main scene, sometimes it shows images of other things or people that are related to the main story? That's what b-roll is.

So, let's say you're making a video about pizza. You'll have your main footage of the person making pizza or talking about pizza, but then you might want to include some b-roll footage of cheese melting on the pizza, or someone taking a bite of a delicious slice of pizza.

Basically, b-roll is like the extra footage that helps tell the whole story or add more details to the video. It's not the main footage, but it's important to help make the video more interesting and engaging.
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