# 161 B-Roll Ideas

Get inspired with b-roll ideas organized by profession

## Table of Contents

🧑‍💻Founders / Entrepreneurs(20)  📈Coaches / Consultants(16)  🛍️E-commerce brand owners(17)  🧘‍♀️Fitness / Wellness / Yoga / Coaches(13)  🤳Influencers / Content creators(16)  🍽️Food creators(10)  🌍Travel creators(12)  🎧Music producers / DJs(10)  🧩Generic B-Roll ANYONE Can Use(36)  🌟Meta B-Roll(11)

## 🧑‍💻Founders / Entrepreneurs

- Working at your desk (film from different angles to give yourself more perspectives!)  
- Working on laptop (typing, scrolling, designing)  
- Walking into office / coworking  
- Team brainstorming moments  
- Whiteboard sketches  
- Sticky notes, planning boards  
- Shipping products / packing boxes  
- Zoom call screenshots (no audio)  
- Pretending to be on a zoom call at your computer  
- Writing in notebook  
- Coffee + laptop aesthetic shots  
- Office exterior / logo shots  
- Founder walking down street or hallway  
- Hands on keyboard close-ups  
- Software interface recorded as screen b-roll  
- Carrying out an activity in your place of work (cleaning, stocking shelves in your shop, setting up your studio, preparing for a meeting with a client)  
- Candid moments of your employees at work  
- Interior / exterior clips of your place of work or business  
- Footage of you preparing for customers, clients, your workspace  
- Rearranging your workspace or decorating a space for the season (e.g. Christmas)

## 📈Coaches / Consultants

- Writing notes  
- Reading a book  
- Reading a magazine or book  
- Highlighting text in a book  
- Working in coffee shop  
- Client sessions blurred (privacy-safe)  
- Footage of you in a meeting with clients (with their permission of course)  
- Calendar planning shots  
- Journaling  
- Preparing a workshop  
- Flipping through frameworks or worksheets  
- Flipping through pages of a notebook or planner  
- Filming desk aesthetic content  
- Slow-mo walking in city or beach  
- Laptop + pen shots  
- Pointing at a slide deck

## 🛍️E-commerce brand owners

- Product close-ups  
- Close-up shots of your product from various angles  
- Packaging orders  
- Close-up of packing an order  
- Unboxing shots  
- Unpacking an order you've received (new tools, new product ranges, new equipment etc)  
- Warehouse b-roll  
- Box stacks  
- Printing labels  
- Hands interacting with product  
- Product rotating on table  
- Studio lighting hitting product  
- Behind-the-scenes of photoshoot  
- Raw lifestyle clips of product in real environment  
- Customers trying product (no talking)  
- Making your products  
- Footage of you preparing for customers, clients, your workspace

## 🧘‍♀️Fitness / Wellness / Yoga / Coaches

- Yoga poses  
- Gym training  
- Meditating / working out  
- Sunrise / sunset b-roll  
- Meditating  
- Pouring a smoothie  
- Walking outdoors  
- Hands on mat / stretching  
- Adjusting dumbbells  
- Preparing gym bag  
- Cleaning equipment  
- Slow-motion breath sequences  
- Nature shots

## 🤳Influencers / Content creators

- Doing makeup  
- Doing your hair / makeup  
- Outfits / mirror shots  
- Mirror selfie video  
- Walking in city  
- Transition shots (hand to lens, spin, whip pan)  
- Behind the scenes of filming  
- Behind the scenes of you at a photoshoot  
- Editing on laptop  
- Eating out  
- Coffee aesthetic  
- Travel clips  
- Packing suitcase  
- POV walking  
- Hands holding phone scrolling  
- Room aesthetic b-roll

## 🍽️Food creators

- Cooking steps  
- Prepping food in kitchen  
- Ingredients close-ups  
- Plating food  
- Pouring sauces  
- Cutting vegetables  
- Oven opening  
- Steam / sizzle shots  
- Kitchen aesthetic  
- Table setups

## 🌍Travel creators

- Hotel room tour  
- Driving clips  
- Getting into the car  
- Street markets  
- City views  
- Footage of your location / view  
- Walking POV  
- Walking through a scenic spot or urban area  
- Aerial shots (phone okay)  
- Sunsets, beaches, airports  
- Packing backpack / suitcase  
- Coffee in different cities

## 🎧Music producers / DJs

- Spinning knobs  
- Loading USB  
- Hand close-ups on mixer  
- Speakers vibing  
- Laptop with DAW  
- Studio synths  
- Backstage walk  
- Crowd b-roll  
- Soundwave animations  
- Putting on headphones

## 🧩Generic B-Roll ANYONE Can Use

These are universal and always work:

- Hands typing  
- Opening your laptop & typing  
- Walking shots  
- Your feet while you walk  
- Walking the dog  
- Desk shots  
- Whiteboard  
- Laptop + coffee  
- Making a coffee  
- Sitting on a sofa & drinking a coffee  
- Pouring a drink  
- Sitting in garden sipping a drink  
- Close-up of face (not talking)  
- Objects on desk  
- Office environment  
- Product on table  
- Street aesthetic  
- Nature clips  
- Books, pen, paper  
- Writing on a notepad  
- Phone scrolling (without text readable)  
- Texting on your phone  
- Talking on your phone (you can pretend!)  
- Light hitting surfaces  
- Lighting a candle  
- Silhouettes  
- Shadows  
- Windows  
- Driving (dashboard POV)  
- Opening door / entering room  
- Looking at skyline  
- Arranging flowers or plants (watering plants, tending to your garden)  
- Close-ups of décor or spaces that inspire you (in your business or outwith!)  
- Playing with your pet  
- Doing a quick craft or hobby, like painting or cooking  
- Timelapse of you carrying out an activity

## 🌟Meta B-Roll

For creators who don't know what to film. These always work because they symbolize effort, focus, routine, ambition:

- Sunrise timelapse  
- Pouring coffee  
- Packing a bag  
- Shoes hitting pavement  
- Opening laptop  
- Turning pages  
- Hand on mouse  
- Close-up of eye or hands  
- Typing fast  
- Phone in hand  
- Closed-up gestures