From Idea to iPhone: A Live Viral Video Creation

About Eitan

An award-winning chef, author, TV personality, and social justice activist, Eitan has amassed over 8 million social media followers–and he’s not even 21. After realizing at age 7 that he had a love for food and cooking, he harnessed his creativity and charisma to become a social media phenomenon–as well as a full-time college student. With over 3 billion annual video views, he collaborates with personalities from Drew Barrymore to Bill Gates, and through the Varsity Tutors Viral Video Creation summer program, he wants to collaborate with you, too.

About the class

What does it take to film a viral TikTok video? Come behind the scenes and see for yourself in this live, interactive viral video shoot with celebrity chef, author, and social media personality Eitan Bernath (@eitan). In this session, you’ll join Eitan as he prepares for, films, edits, and posts a video for his 8 million followers. And you’ll learn his secrets for each phase of video creation, including idea generation, audio/visual setup, audience engagement, and editing techniques (hint: you should be thinking about editing even before you start recording). And with the clock ticking to create a viral video in under an hour, you’ll use Eitan’s principles to help him make on-the-fly decisions, too.