Mike Portelly

Mike Portelly The serious introduction to underwater film making came a few months later, The same producer Jon put me in touch with a friend of his shooting a large project for Pepsi cola for the US. I had to go for an interview in Kingly Court in Soho. There were three big established modelmaking…

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My first water job

The two tanks in Malta . Mediteranean Film Studios. Malta’s open lot studios have 2 tanks, the original one is an infinity tank about 2.5m deep but wide enough to shoot a small sea battle or  to fit Jason and most of his Argonauts. The other, deeper, round tank was built in the  1960’s for  ‘Raising…

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How I started working underwater

I studied for my BA in fine art at Loughborough College of art, initially accepted on to the painting course. In my second year I switched from painting to sculpture. When I graduated, that choice, and a bit of ability, enabled me to get commercial sculpting jobs. After working on films and tv at a…

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