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12/11/2024

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11/14/2024

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11/11/2024

Lest we forget

11/04/2024

Thank you for a wonderful workshop! Congratulations to all of our courageous talent!
The Okanagan Talent pool keep growing 🥰
(wasn't able to tag everyone)

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10/30/2024

ONLY 3 SEATS LEFT! REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 3PM THURSDAY!
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10/29/2024

Last Chance in 2024 for Voice Over 101! If you've ever wondered about the Vast & Exciting World of Voice Over - Commercials, Animation, Video Games, Audiobooks + more - Checkout The Class Details & Registration - www.emcstudios.ca -

EMC Studios is Kelowna's Premiere Performer's Resource Centre. Audition self-tapes & classes!

10/26/2024

Only 4 days left to register! This is an IN PERSON workshop with Okanagan's very own Angela Quinn. You don't want to miss this! Payment Plans available!
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10/17/2024

Just 1 Week Left For Our Spooktacular Classes Promo!
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10/13/2024

While working on "Strangers on a Train" (1951), Robert Walker was delighted to find out that he was Alfred Hitchcock's only choice for Bruno Antony. Walker was borrowed from MGM for this movie.

One of the most memorable single shots in the film, if not the entire Hitchcock canon, is Laura Elliott's character Miriam's strangulation by Walker's Bruno on the Magic Isle. The slow, almost graceful, murder is shown as a reflection in the victim's eyeglasses, which have been jarred loose from her head and dropped to the ground. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. First Hitchcock got the exterior shots in Canoga Park, using both actors, then later he had Elliott alone report to a soundstage where there was a large concave reflector set on the floor. The camera was on one side of the reflector, Elliott was on the other, and Hitchcock directed Elliott to turn her back to the reflector and "float backwards, all the way to the floor... like you were doing the limbo." The first six takes went badly—Elliott thudded to the floor with several feet yet to go—but on the seventh take, she floated smoothly all the way. Hitchcock's even-strained response: "Cut. Next shot."

When Anne is at the Antony home and Bruno's mother leaves the room, Bruno enters and talks to Anne. He is wearing the same printed silk dressing robe worn by Sheridan Whiteside, played by Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942). (IMDb/Wikipedia)

Happy Birthday, Robert Walker!

10/12/2024

We hope our EMC Community has a lovely Thanksgiving weekend.

10/11/2024

Come join us this November!

EMC Studios is Kelowna's Premiere Performer's Resource Centre. Audition self-tapes & classes!

10/09/2024

As “Saturday Night Live” nears its half-century anniversary, Fineman explains how the show balances classic and modern approaches to sketch comedy.

10/09/2024

John Lennon found the Spanish location quite boring while filming "How I Won the War" (1967), so Ringo Starr flew out to keep him company. However, Lennon also found working on the project a refreshing change from his increasingly arduous and isolated musical career with The Beatles. On set, Lennon was just another cast member, and a relatively minor one, who could interact with others largely as a normal person with the crew. As such, Lennon insisted on attending the production every day even when he was not required on set as a learning experience.

This was the first time John Lennon wore his soon-to-be-trademark granny glasses in public. The glasses were known as "metal British National Health Service (NHS) style frames." They were the standard eyeglasses issued by the "free" British health care system. Lennon was "blind as a bat," claimed fellow Beatle Paul McCartney. While making the movie, he felt a sense of liberation being able to see while not worrying about how he looked in them. The glasses, which at the time were the farthest thing from being fashionable, were worn by John for the remainder of his life. They have now become known as John Lennon glasses.

During his stay in Almería, Lennon had rented a villa called Santa Isabel that he and wife Cynthia shared with both his co-star Michael Crawford and his then wife, Gabrielle Lewis, whose wrought-iron gates and surrounding lush vegetation bore a resemblance to Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army garden near Lennon's childhood home; it was this observation that inspired Lennon to write "Strawberry Fields Forever" while filming. (IMDb/Wikipedia)

Happy Birthday, John Lennon!

10/09/2024

All the cast members of "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983) had terrible experiences when it came to filming the scenes inside Walley World, where they rode all of the roller coasters and other rides. In the commentary, Chevy Chase mentions that many of the rides made him and the other cast members vomit, especially since they all had to ride them several times for each take. Dana Barron mentioned in the commentary that the coasters made her so sick, she had to take motion sickness pills, and would pass out on nearby benches between takes. Finally, Anthony Michael Hall mentions that in the shots on the roller coaster, where he looks scared, he wasn't acting, his fear in those shots was genuine. According to Hall, originally it was supposed to be Chase in the front seat of the roller coaster with John Candy. With the combined size of both men, they couldn't fit, so the changed was made with Hall being in the front seat, instead of Chase.

The original ending of the film consisted of the Griswold family, after seeing that Walley World is closed, going to the Hollywood house of Roy Walley. Clark points a BB gun at Walley, then forces him and his business associates to sing and dance Walley World theme songs, before the police arrive to arrest Clark. The Girl in the Red Ferrari turned out to be Walley's daughter, and she convinces him not to press charges against Clark. On the plane ride home, the Griswolds realize they are on the wrong flight. Clark snaps and hijacks the plane. This did not go over well with test audiences, and the scenes in the park with Candy, were a last-minute alternate ending filmed over two weeks, four months after production ended. The original ending was deleted, and is believed to be lost. However, Chase has said that he has a tape of the movie with the original ending. A photo of the Griswolds on the plane is shown during the end credits.

For the scene where Clark ties Dinky's leash to the rear bumper and forgets all about it before driving off, Producer Matty Simmons said that after the movie's release, he received numerous letters from people who had seen the movie, and admitted that they had made the same grievous error with their pets, as Clark did in the movie. Chase and James Keach stated in interviews, that during the "Dog tied to the bumper" scene, they were legitimately tearing up, and that Chevy consistently biting his lips and his shortness of breath were genuine, all because they were trying so hard to contain themselves from laughing. (IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Chevy Chase!

10/04/2024

Okanagan's very own Angela Quinn will be joining us at EMC for an in Person Workshop this November. We are so Stoked for this one! Register at www.emcstudios.ca/schedule

10/02/2024

It's Officially Spooktober ~ and EMC is ready to kick it off with our Spooktacular Promo for the next session! ~ Check it Out!
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09/26/2024

This is an easy and fun first step to better understand the TV/Film Biz and all it's moving parts. Learn new & exciting information about the local industry!

09/24/2024