John Hollands(I)
- Production Manager
- Editorial Department
- Sound Department
Born in Sydney, John lived his first eight years of childhood in
Boggabri - a country town in NSW - where he first used the family's 8MM
film camera in 1956, when floods came close to the town. Then, in 1958,
the family moved back to Sydney, living at Balmoral and John went to
school in Mosman. While still at school, John played drums, trumpet and
saxaphone in school bands as well as after-school groups. Moving
between classic, jazz and rock, he finally settled on rock. Playing
with a professional rock group in his last year at school, he changed
out of school uniform and did his homework in the back of the band's
van. After completing school, he worked fulltime in music. There was a
studio production course at a local education centre and he enrolled in
that course during the day for something to do - and to better
understand the medium since the band was making TV appearances. This
lead to an interest in production generally and, since music was mostly
a night-time job, he looked for a job in a studio. A rare thing in
those days, there were very few studios around! John's first "proper"
job was at The Film Academy, painting sets, sweeping floors, pushing
the dolly, carrying lights, rewinding films, helping the Editors after
hours and on weekends. After a year, he looked for a job at Australia's
ABC-TV. Taking the first job that came along, he had a mereoric rise
from Assistant Storeman to Film Library Assistant to Assistant Film
Editor all in the space of ten weeks. John stayed in the ABC Editing
Department for another ten years. As Assistant to Richard Francis-Bruce and Ray
Alchin, John worked on most of the big drama shows going through the
ABC in those years, 1970-1980, becoming an Editor in 1974. Leaving the
ABC in late 1980, John worked freelance with Grundy's, Kennedy-Miller
and others. He was Post-Production Supervisor for many McElroy &
McElroy productions, Head of Post Production for Crawford Productions
and Supervising Editor at Channel TEN. With the birth of a son, later a
daughter, John decided against working on productions which required
travel away from home for extended periods. So John opened his own
editing studio in 1994 and operated it until 1998, closing the studio
in order to concentrate on Producing and Directing TV Commercials and
Corporate Videos.