Welcome to 5 Tool Productions HQ

Welcome to 5 Tool Productions HQ Did you know that 5 Tool Productions has a full-service video and audio studio in our offices just outside of Boston?  Right off of 95 in Norwood, MA, our offices have everything you and your team need to create content from start to finish.  Check out the video below […]

A Breakdown of Options for B2B Live Streaming in 2023

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I was recently on a pre-production call for an upcoming event and the question of where the audience was going to watch the live stream came up.  Event manager: To be honest we haven’t really thought of that yet. I’m not entirely sure, maybe zoom? Do you have any suggestions? Me: It kinda depends on […]

Traveling with 5Tool Productions

Traveling with 5Tool Productions   Overall within the past month, I had the chance to go to Maine for a project with the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, and New York for a conference with ONUG. Both of these experiences were excellent for me to be a part of. I learned the many different aspects of a […]

What you can learn from Facebook’s apology ads

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you know Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately. I seems like every day a new headline is being made. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to asking advertisers for social security numbers, the platform has been dominating national news cycles for a few […]

The 5 Tools of Production

Since we started our video podcast series we’ve been answering questions about content marketing and video productions on a pretty regular basis. However, there is one thing we haven’t addressed. Our name. We’ve heard people ask about our name quite frequently so we figured it was about time we explained it. In baseball a 5 […]

What video equipment do you REALLY need? – Video Podcast

We’ve all been sucked into the latest and greatest camera, lens, tripod, light kit, slider, jib, drone, etc. But what video equipment do you really need in order to put out a great piece of content? While it is fun to drool over images of cameras on Instagram, (Seriously, we do it just about every day.) […]

The power of evoking emotions.

For the early part of my career, I spent a handful of years as a sports reporter for a (VERY) local TV station. Being from Boston, I was used to seeing stories on the nightly news about the Red Sox, Patriots, and all the other major sports teams so imagine my surprise when I arrived for my first day in Northern Maine when I was told I had to go and cover the “Moose hunt.” After about a month or so into the job I started to question the importance of lot of the things I was covering. That led me to have a great and pivotal