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L0T 12: The Calm Before the Computex Storm.

🕑 Added 2023-05-25 19:38:15 +0000 UTC

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Wes

Just caught up on this this morning...my 8 and 6 year old love Homestar Runner.

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I'm not sure how much of this you might know, so forgive me if this is more than you needed. In the video world, there are two types of footage. A-roll and B-roll. The A-roll is the Meat and Potatoes of the video. In our case, the A-roll is usually Wendell talking about a subject. It's content that can be consumed all on its own. It'll keep you from starving, but it might be a little bland. Now in order to spice up the content, we add B-roll. The B-roll is footage that goes on top of the A-roll. For us, that looks like slo-mo of a motherboard, GPU, CPU, or a case. Our graphs, website scrolls and illustrations also fall under B-roll. Those things on their own, don't really make for a compelling video. It would be like eating a spoonful of salt and pepper. It needs the Meat and Potatoes for it to make sense. So, all that is to say, we call ourselves the B-team because we put the spice in the A-team. They very much would still have content without us, but we make it better! ~Editor Autumn