When to insert B roll?

[Mark Suszko]

I think that’s Mamet code for an expletive. Or not: it depends on the inflection with which it is delivered.

[Mark Suszko]

[grinner hester] “I cut to broll when wanting to see what is being talked about and I go to talking head when I don’t have b-roll or to introduce em. The only person who wants to watch a talking head is the head who was talkin’.”

I know you didn’t mean that in a universal sense.
You CAN do this, but doesn’t always mean you should. It really depends on the actual material. With a certain person, talking about certain things, the talking head is the most interesting and entertaining and informative thing you could possibly show.

The tight CU of the face, the eyes and mouth expressing and emoting… these things are eternal, elements of the very basis of storytelling art. This is what Hollywood producers spend millions to fake. If you can get that, real and for free, by all means you should use it.

Sometimes the best editing you can do is to know when not to mess with what’s already there. Just clear some space around it so it can be appreciated as-is.

[Tony Stampalia]

Hey, let’s do lunch.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Tony,

You really are a whiney little one, aren’t you?

Anyone that doesn’t agree with you is instantly mocked and branded as an idiot or whatever other vitriolic pronouncement you wish to spew?

Well, let’s just say that your spewing days are over as you must pass the COW’s minimum age-level requirement to post here and you clearly are below it.

Goodbye.

Ron Lindeboom

[David Dickerson]

IMHO, Jon, there should be a reason for every edit (cut to B rollin this case). If the speaker says it better than the B roll, then let the speaker run with it. Usually, though, B roll keeps the viewers eyes on the screen. But I do think Mark’s last sentence said it best, and perhaps another way of saying it: if it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.

DD

[Chris Bové]

…or just do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

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