Built around story
I help organizations find the human stories inside their events, programs and people.
Fifth Productions is a films and photography studio led by Billy Corcoran V. I work directly with you from first conversation to final delivery, and build the team each project needs.
Chevron Championship 2026
An event isn’t always the story.
Often it’s where the story becomes visible.
The story we found
Nelly Korda - Battle Behind the Win
The assignment was tournament-week storytelling: plan the coverage, capture each day and turn it into finished films on a fast turnaround.
But staying close to the event meant recognizing when the story became bigger than the recap. As Nelly Korda’s week unfolded, we followed the pressure, emotion and momentum around her and shaped those moments into Battle Behind the Win — a film that revealed the human story inside the event.
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Find
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Shape
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Pre-production
Build the coverage around the assignment we know we have.
Production
Cover the event — and pay attention to what keeps pulling you closer.
Post-production
Listen closely enough to understand what the footage is really saying.
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Plan
Pre-production
The assignment was tournament-week storytelling — cover the week well, move fast and deliver while the event was still happening.
That meant building the production around a live tournament: what mattered each day, where our shooters needed to be, which people and moments deserved attention and what had to be turned around quickly.
We weren’t planning a film about Nelly Korda. We didn’t know that story existed yet. The point of the plan was to cover the assignment thoroughly while staying flexible enough to recognize something unexpected if it began to emerge.
The assignment was tournament-week storytelling — cover the week well, move fast and deliver while it was still happening.
We built the production around the moments, people and coverage we knew we needed, while staying flexible enough to notice something unexpected if it emerged.
You can’t predict every story. You can prepare to recognize one.
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Find
Production
As the tournament unfolded, Nelly’s week started feeling like more than a collection of golf moments.
There was pressure, emotion and momentum. Moments from different days seemed connected even before we fully understood why. We kept delivering the work we were there to make, but we also kept paying attention to that thread.
With three shooters working from different positions, we were capturing different pieces of the same experience. By the end of the week, I knew there was a larger story somewhere inside what we had documented. I just didn’t know exactly what it was yet.
As the tournament unfolded, Nelly’s week started feeling like more than a collection of golf moments.
Across three shooters, we kept capturing pieces of the same pressure, emotion and momentum. By the end of the week, I knew there was a bigger story in what we had documented — even if we didn’t fully understand it yet.
Sometimes you recognize the story before you understand it.
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Shape
Post-production
The story became clear when we heard Nelly explain what the week meant to her.
In her press conference, she dug into the struggles of the previous year and what it had taken to overcome them. That gave us the lens. When we went back through her on-course interview, those same themes were already there in a more immediate form.
From there, we researched the previous year, found the moments that showed those struggles and went back through everything available to us — footage from all three shooters, her interviews, broadcast material and past clips. The edit became less about recapping a tournament and more about connecting the moments that revealed what this victory actually meant.
The story became clear when we heard Nelly explain what the week meant to her.
Her press conference gave us the lens. We went back through the interviews, footage, broadcast material and previous-year moments, connecting the pieces into a film about what the victory actually meant.
We captured the week in real time. Her words showed us what it meant.
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Happy Goat · Mariposa County
Not every story starts at an event.
Sometimes it starts with a problem worth solving.
Happy Goat could have made a commercial about goats clearing brush.
Instead, we built a documentary about a community facing a real problem.
Fire, Goats & Hope traces the impact of wildfire in Mariposa County, brings in local fire experts, follows Happy Goat’s work educating the community, and shows how prescribed grazing is being used as one part of the solution.
The goats get your attention. The story gives their work meaning.
View the full story →“Billy saw the bigger story immediately.
We could have made a straightforward video explaining how the goats graze and reduce wildfire fuel. Billy pushed us to go deeper. He wanted to understand the history of fire in our community, hear from the experts, show how we’re educating people and connect all of it to the work happening on the ground. His creativity and vision turned what could have been a simple marketing video into a story people can actually connect with. And somehow he made the whole process incredibly easy and a lot of fun.”
John Cahalin · Founder, Happy Goat Farm
Live event photography
Make people wish they were there.
I photograph the people, atmosphere and details that make an event feel alive — not just how it looked, but how it felt to be there.
RT Specialty
New York City
RT Specialty
New York City
Fifth Productions photographed the people, atmosphere and hospitality surrounding this New York City event - capturing the scale of the experience along with the candid moments happening inside it.
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Amaree’s 50th Anniversary
Newport Beach
Amaree’s 50th Anniversary
Newport Beach
A milestone celebration photographed through the people, style, details and energy that made the evening feel distinct.
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Hoag Classic
Newport Beach
Hoag Classic
Newport Beach
Across tournament week, Fifth Productions photographed the experience beyond the competition - players, partners, hospitality, fans and the moments that gave the event its character.
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One event. One story. Or the whole year.
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An event
One day to one week
A single gathering or a full week of moments worth capturing. Film, photography or both.
The range
From a dinner, launch or keynote to a conference, tournament or multi-day experience.
We can plan for stages, speakers, guests, sponsors, hospitality, interviews and everything happening around the edges.
The result might be a still gallery, social content, a fast-turn recap, a longer film — or the beginning of a story we didn’t know was there yet.
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A story
Go deeper
A person, program, milestone, idea or problem that deserves more than a recap.
The range
From a founder or employee profile to an origin story, community initiative, nonprofit mission or documentary.
We can build it through interviews, archival material, observational footage, field production and the people whose perspectives give the story context.
Sometimes it starts with a clear brief. Sometimes we discover the real story by getting closer to the work.
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An ongoing partnership
Built over time
For organizations whose stories don’t happen once. They unfold all year.
The range
From a handful of key moments across the year to an ongoing calendar of events, people and stories.
We plan ahead, identify what matters, return as the story develops and build a growing library of film and photography over time.
That library can support the website, social, campaigns, recruiting, sponsors, donors, internal communications and whatever comes next.
Whatever the scale, the way I work stays the same.
Billy Corcoran V · On location · Hoag Classic 2026
How I work
You work with me from the first conversation through delivery.
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A first conversation
First, I listen.
Before I start thinking about cameras, I want to understand your organization, what you’re working toward, and what success looks like to you.
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Finding the story
Then, we find the story.
Sometimes you already know exactly what you want to communicate. Other times, we discover something more interesting through our conversations.
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Building the right production
We build the right plan.
I believe great production should feel organized without becoming complicated. My job is to think through the details so we’re prepared to make the most of our time together. I work from established pre-production workflows, and I take preparation seriously.
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On the ground
Then we bring it to life.
This is the part I absolutely love. Being in the room, connecting with people, watching moments unfold, and knowing when to follow the plan and when to pursue something unexpected.
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Shaping the final work
We shape it. Then we put it to work.
Production is only part of the process. I stay involved as we shape the final work, making sure the story feels right and serves the goals we established from the beginning. And when it’s ready, I want you to have more than beautiful content. I want you to know how to use it.
Start a project
Have something coming up? Let’s find the story in it.
Tell me what’s happening, who it matters to and what you need the work to do. I’ll come back with how I’d approach it.
Start the conversation