#BRoll April 3
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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.
I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day Three the theme is repetitive B ROLL in some TV news stories.
“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge
Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.
It looks like this.
Challenge Guidelines
- View the daily video and mirror what you see.
- Complete all 30 daily exercises
Day 3-Tai Chi -Cultivate Stillness
Alan’s Day 3 lesson can be viewed below
April 3rd-TV News B-Roll
On Monday March 30th I was watching a news story about a trial that was about 90 seconds long. It had B-Roll footage that because of its repetitive nature irritated me. B-roll purpose is to be utilized as supplemental video footage in a TV news story. The goal is to provide context, illustrates what is being discussed, and helps make the story more engaging for viewers.
In that 90 second piece they had three unique scenes (5 seconds or less) they played over and over again during the narration. Was just curious if the producer or editor of this story was intentional or lazy. It sure did not make the story more engaging it was a distraction. Today’s Tai Chi lesson was to get calm it accomplished the goal-that news story goal of engagement missed the mark because of the distraction from overused B-Roll.
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