I know most people do things like take exterior footage of buildings, subjects to be interviewed walking in and out of said buildings and rooms, and walking in a straight line somewhere or throughout an interview location. What else can be taken to create this type of footage? If you're interviewing someone in their home, do you take footage of them fake reading a book? Cooking something? Taking a phone call? Watching television? What about someone at work? Walking around the office? Typing on a computer? Taking a phone call at work? Having a lunch break? Have you filmed interviews before? What did you do to create B-roll footage for them? What types of environments were you in when you filmed them? What came to mind when you had to make something up to film? If you know of others who have filmed B-roll for that purpose, how did they film theirs? Currently film theirs?
What do you do to create B-Roll footage for an interview?
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Don't overcomplicate it.
You should shoot footage to show (and thus tell) more about the interviewee and/or the subject the interview is about.
If it's about racing cars, it's no real addition to show him doing dishes.
But it doesn't always have to be literal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43xej7evbk
It's about screenwriting, but the fishing is a hobby, a way to reflect on riting and a metafor the writer uses.
Showing a building is only relevant if the location is relevant.
Entering the building is almost only relevant if the interviewee is visiting.
Unless you are Ivo Niehe (Dutch TV host who like to be on screen as interviewer and show where he interviews) or someone like Michael Moore
(Just kidding)
Watch interviews and analyse them.
Make sure B-roll isn't random.
PS.
What I do to create B-roll?
I press 'rec'
You should shoot footage to show (and thus tell) more about the interviewee and/or the subject the interview is about.
If it's about racing cars, it's no real addition to show him doing dishes.
But it doesn't always have to be literal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43xej7evbk
It's about screenwriting, but the fishing is a hobby, a way to reflect on riting and a metafor the writer uses.
Showing a building is only relevant if the location is relevant.
Entering the building is almost only relevant if the interviewee is visiting.
Unless you are Ivo Niehe (Dutch TV host who like to be on screen as interviewer and show where he interviews) or someone like Michael Moore
(Just kidding)
Watch interviews and analyse them.
Make sure B-roll isn't random.
PS.
What I do to create B-roll?
I press 'rec'