JOHN GOLLEY is a Producer making TV commercials, digital advertising, idents & corporate films for brands such as LG, Lloyds, British Army, British Airways, Twinings, Kellogg’s, Barclays and the BBC, to name just a few. Working with advertising agencies such as Fallon, BBH, AMV BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, CoI and corporate companies including The Edge and The Bank.
After graduating with a BA from the Royal Welsh Collage of Music and Drama in Cardiff, John moved to London and became a runner at the Moving Picture Company, which gave him an invaluable training in Post Production, which is an area that he is still extremely interested in today. After a short spell as a TK assistant at the then Telecine facility, John was asked to work as a PA at Pankino, a music video and commercials production company based in Camden.
In the early 1990’s he joined the fledgling TV Company, BSB, after Sky TV took it over he decided to stay in TV, becoming a producer at Granada Television in Manchester and then back in London to the BBC, were he worked on the launch of BBC World.
After being headhunted to join the then independent UK Gold as Senior Producer and going on to run the creative department until its holding company, UK TV was bought by the BBC, to where he returned once more, this time as Producer on BBC One making trailers for shows as diverse as Panorama to EastEnders, for which he won four Promax Gold awards for a single campaign. Shortly after this John moved areas within BBC Broadcast, to their ‘TV Department’ that made all the high-end commercial/trailers. He stayed in this area when his department was sold off and became Red Bee Media. During this time John produced some of the UK’s top commercial directors such as Michael Geoghegan, Ringan Ledwidge, Rocky Morton, Guy Manwaring, Jim Jenkins, Tim Pope, Graham Rose and Oscar winning Kevin McDonald to name but a few. He has worked with talent such as Paul McCartney, Michael Stipe, Luciano Pavarotti, as well as some of the BBC’s biggest stars like Jonathan Ross and Michael Parkinson.
In 2007 John was approached to run Pink Films. In March 2008 he rebranded it to Spank and spent two and a half years running one of Soho’s top commercial production companies. During this time he produced a number high profile commercials, and in 2009 was part of the APA trade delegation to China.
But missing full time hands on producing, and in an ever changing media world wanting to broaden his production skills, in September 2010 John left Spank, and has been working solidly ever since, producing, writing and every now and again, even doing some directing.
After graduating with a BA from the Royal Welsh Collage of Music and Drama in Cardiff, John moved to London and became a runner at the Moving Picture Company, which gave him an invaluable training in Post Production, which is an area that he is still extremely interested in today. After a short spell as a TK assistant at the then Telecine facility, John was asked to work as a PA at Pankino, a music video and commercials production company based in Camden.
In the early 1990’s he joined the fledgling TV Company, BSB, after Sky TV took it over he decided to stay in TV, becoming a producer at Granada Television in Manchester and then back in London to the BBC, were he worked on the launch of BBC World.
After being headhunted to join the then independent UK Gold as Senior Producer and going on to run the creative department until its holding company, UK TV was bought by the BBC, to where he returned once more, this time as Producer on BBC One making trailers for shows as diverse as Panorama to EastEnders, for which he won four Promax Gold awards for a single campaign. Shortly after this John moved areas within BBC Broadcast, to their ‘TV Department’ that made all the high-end commercial/trailers. He stayed in this area when his department was sold off and became Red Bee Media. During this time John produced some of the UK’s top commercial directors such as Michael Geoghegan, Ringan Ledwidge, Rocky Morton, Guy Manwaring, Jim Jenkins, Tim Pope, Graham Rose and Oscar winning Kevin McDonald to name but a few. He has worked with talent such as Paul McCartney, Michael Stipe, Luciano Pavarotti, as well as some of the BBC’s biggest stars like Jonathan Ross and Michael Parkinson.
In 2007 John was approached to run Pink Films. In March 2008 he rebranded it to Spank and spent two and a half years running one of Soho’s top commercial production companies. During this time he produced a number high profile commercials, and in 2009 was part of the APA trade delegation to China.
But missing full time hands on producing, and in an ever changing media world wanting to broaden his production skills, in September 2010 John left Spank, and has been working solidly ever since, producing, writing and every now and again, even doing some directing.
At Work
John has shot films in Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic, China, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, USA……
