“B-roll” is apparently an “old film term” which I am too young to understand, and you probably don’t care about the details anyway.

Here’s what’s interesting: Sometimes reporters will find themselves assigned to cover a story that is “weak on video”.  Usually that means the story is about an event that was not visually capture, or a story about an issue.  These are often referred to as a “great story for newspapers”.

Apparently, an Asian media mogul has developed a way to fudge that b-roll by making news reports look like video games.  As this report from CNN shows, his company creates animations to depict the news.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to call these guys?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8