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Whitecat · 30th January 2012

How I added sex noises to Shame | Film | The Guardian

(maybe slightly nsfw? depends where you work I guess!)

TiagoJSilva · 31st January 2012

They don't even know or care that what they did wasn't ADR but walla. I'm not about to register with the Grauniad just to correct them.

Mundox · 1st February 2012

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Originally Posted by TiagoJSilva

They don't even know or care that what they did wasn't ADR but walla. I'm not about to register with the Grauniad just to correct them.

Hmm, it depends. If you're replacing/recreating reactions of people clearly on screen, then it could be ADR.
If you put the on screen stuff on your walla tracks you might get burnt during the director's viewing when he asks to tweak a certain character's reaction.

Etch-A-Sketch · 1st February 2012

It can still be called ADR. I've seen it called "Group ADR" or "Loop Group" before. Walla is usually done in a Group ADR/Loop Group session.

The editors have to separate it into language specific and no language tracks... any language specific walla might need to get replaced in foreign language versions. the no language walla doesn't. But you don't do a separate session for them... they are all done in the group ADR session typically.

InternJesse · 1st February 2012

Is there a difference between "loop group" and "walla"?

Etch-A-Sketch · 2nd February 2012

in my experiences, "walla" is something the "loop group" does, as well as other things.

Uncle Bob · 2nd February 2012

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Originally Posted by InternJesse

Is there a difference between "loop group" and "walla"?

Etch-A-Sketch is right. A Loop Group will also perform individual incidental lines of dialog in addition to walla. Quite often they "ADR" the dialog lines of extras. They could be the voices of the actors greeting a dignitary in a receiving line, for example. Or they could be reporters yelling specific questions at a press conference. Both of these are quite different than walla, which is supposed to be wordless crowd noise.

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Etch-A-Sketch Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,025	It can still be called ADR. I've seen it called "Group ADR" or "Loop Group" before. Walla is usually done in a Group ADR/Loop Group session. The editors have to separate it into language specific and no language tracks... any language specific walla might need to get replaced in foreign language versions. the no language walla doesn't. But you don't do a separate session for them... they are all done in the group ADR session typically. __________________ Derek Jones Audio Engineer - Producer - Composer http://www.linkedin.com/pub/derek-jones/8/986/9b9 http://www.myspace.com/daogkilla "We were working on Raiders [of the Lost Ark]. He [Ben Burt] told me that the sound source for opening the lid of the ark in the last reel was within 20'. I couldn't figure it out. It turned out to be lifting the back off the toilet above the water chamber, and slowing it down." -Tomlinson Holman

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31st January 2012	#2
TiagoJSilva Gear Head Joined: Jul 2010 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 41	They don't even know or care that what they did wasn't ADR but walla. I'm not about to register with the Grauniad just to correct them.

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InternJesse Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2012 Location: NYC Posts: 199	Is there a difference between "loop group" and "walla"?

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Etch-A-Sketch Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,025	in my experiences, "walla" is something the "loop group" does, as well as other things.