Anxiety Offline starts Fingerboard Filmmaking 101 with the shots between the tricks

In the video description, Anxiety Offline lays out the pitch plainly: the episode covers how adding B-roll "can really help elevate your video and make it more personal and relatable."

The channel says the video walks through:

• its own method for adding B-roll to its videos
• why it does it
• how it's done
• why viewers should try it themselves

The description doesn't list the specific steps, gear or software, so the workflow itself is best taken straight from the source: watch episode one on YouTube before you plan your next shoot. It's early days for the upload: the channel's YouTube stats showed 221 views, 23 likes and five comments at the time of writing.

B-roll is any footage that isn't the main action: in our world, anything that isn't a trick. Fingerboarding gives it extra weight. A tight shot of two fingers on a 32 mm deck tells a viewer almost nothing about where they are. A table in a bedroom, a park bolted together in a garage, a ledge set up on a shop counter: those are places, and places are what make an edit feel personal.

That's the territory the episode is pointing at. Here are some fingerboard-specific cutaways worth trying alongside whatever method the lesson teaches:

The setup

• Obstacles coming out of a bag or box and going down on the table
• Waxing a ledge or rail before the first try
• Swapping wheels, tightening trucks or re-taping a deck

The surface

• A slow pass along metal coping or angle iron
• Close-ups of foam or riptape texture
• A board resting at the top of a ramp's transition

The room

• A wide of the whole park so viewers can read the scale
• Friends watching, filming or waiting their turn
• Whatever makes the spot yours: the shelf of decks, the window light, the sticker wall

None of this needs to be long. A second or two between lines is often enough to reset a viewer's eye and give the next trick some breathing room.

Anxiety Offline is a fingerboard YouTube channel that says it posts new content every week. It also sells fingerboard supplies through its own site, Anxietyoffline.com, and runs a YouTube channel membership.

A filmmaking series is a different lane from shop content and session clips, and it's one the scene could use more of. Plenty of riders can land the trick; fewer think about how the clip around it is built.

Episode one of Fingerboard Filmmaking 101 is on YouTube now. The channel hasn't announced a topic or date for episode two, so subscribing to Anxiety Offline is the way to catch it when it lands.