Become a Video Creator
Build Your Digital Portfolio
& Help Change the World
Become a Video Creator
Build Your Digital Portfolio
& Help Change the World
Interested in becoming a video creator?
The Flip the Lens (FTL) Culture Correspondent Program offers high school & university students the opportunity to build their digital portfolios by creating videos on culture, our unique differences, and our shared human condition. Make a social impact while you showcase your filmmaking skills to the world!
Create & Publish Four YouTube Videos
Build Your Digital Portfolio
According to market research, a digital portfolio is essential to securing a professional job, regardless of your chosen industry.
Inviting Video Creators To Be Digital Ambassadors For Humanity!
Take Our 7-Week Online Culture Correspondent Course!
- Become a Filmmaker & Culture Correspondent with Flip the Lens online, on-demand course
- Create & publish four videos on the Flip the Lens YouTube channel
- Conduct interviews on themes of Belonging, Creativity & Culture
- Produce a mini-documentary on a “Day in the Life” of a culture creator
- Build your digital portfolio
- Get experience with promoting your work
- Be part of changing the world!
Don’t have a professional camera?
No need for super high-tech equipment, fancy sets, or complex editing.
If you have a phone, you’re a filmmaker!
The only goal is to keep it authentic and real.
Is this course for you?
Are you an aspiring or emerging video creator?
Are you a storyteller at heart?
Do you want to make a difference in the world?
Are you seeking to create or enhance your digital portfolio?
If you answered “yes”, then join our community of filmmakers!
We license the Culture Correspondent program to educators and youth organizations!
Learn how to engage your students through making videos!
Learn Filmmaking, Publish Videos &
Live Your Dream of Being a Video Creator
You’ll get structured templates to conduct three interviews and produce one mini documentary, along with tutorials and tips on best practices and techniques.
We’ll give you feedback on your first draft of each video so that you can refine your pieces before they are published on the Flip the Lens YouTube channel.
Once published, you’ll have your own playlist that can serve as the foundation of your digital portfolio!
Hard Skills
- Storytelling
- Interviewing
- Production planning
Soft Skills
- Listening
- Communication
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Critical Thinking
- Confidence
Hear From Our Culture Correspondents
FTL Culture Correspondent
Timothy Friend
USA
“Working with Flip the Lens has given me an opportunity to not only learn more about the people around me and how they see the world, but also how social media platforms like YouTube work. I have learned the importance of keywords in the promotion of ideas that are given by these people.”
FTL Culture Correspondent
Francesca Lamantea
Italy
“The Culture Correspondent program gave me the opportunity to develop my digital storytelling skills and to get experience creating destination marketing videos”.
FTL Culture Correspondent
Andela Sormaz
Serbia
“I had an opportunity to develop my digital storytelling skills and to get experience creating videos.”
FTL Culture Correspondent
Michele Francesco Tagliabue
Italy
“I had the opportunity to gain experience in the field of content creation by interviewing people, and fine-tuning my video editing skills. Also, I’ve acquired a broad knowledge on YouTube platform’s analytics.”
FTL Culture Correspondent
Abigail Haskell
USA
I’ve developed skills in video editing, and graphic design. Media production is my area of interest so these skills prepared me for my career by exposing me to various software.
FTL Culture Correspondent
Hannah Haslam
USA
I have been able to add multiple new skills to my resume and content for my portfolio, which will help me in the future. I truly feel prepared to take on the professional workforce after this experience!
FTL Culture Correspondent
Mahima Gopalkrishna
India
“As a Culture Correspondent, I got a chance to create my own content. To show the place and culture I love in a way that is dear to me. This is something that every travel/culture lover must experience in order to truly understand it.”
Testimonials from Partners
“Our community access station recently co-hosted a Flip the Lens summer camp. The young video creators were professionally trained to produce meaningful local content. The end result was an incredible array of thoughtfully produced digital short stories. Participants learned the skills for creating a story that elicits an emotional response from viewers. The FTL approach taught the students teamwork and the importance of empathy for others.”
Chuck Lewis
Executive Director
Valley Shore Community Television
Westbrook, CT
“We were able to explore the message/theme of Belonging, which falls in line with RAW’s mission. The children were able to open up in ways that they haven’t had the space to before which was amazing to watch. In addition, the youth were able to tap into the interview process by listening and engaging with strangers. I am glad to say that we as a group learned a lot and hope to continue partnerships like this in the future.”
Julian Gabelus
Production Manager
Real to Reel Film School, RAW Art Works
Lynn, MA
Become a Flip the Lens Culture Correspondent
Editing Resources
This course requires basic video editing skills and access to editing tools.
There are many free editing software programs. We offer a kit of tutorials and resources that may be helpful to those just starting out!
Our tutorials cover:
A Simple Guide to iPhone Filmmaking
How to Transfer Videos From Your iPhone to iMovie
Video Editing for Beginners using iMovie
Week One
Immerse in the Flip the Lens approach to filmmaking and life
Flip the Lens is dedicated to showing and promoting humanity through the power of filmmaking. In a time when the internet is so self-centered Flip the Lens wants to encourage people to look outside of themselves and at the world and people around them. At Flip the Lens we believe everyone can be a filmmaker who benefits humanity.
Week Two
Learn how to tell a compelling story
What is a story? While there are as many different opinions as there are people, the ancient philosopher Aristotle once said “A story that is whole has a beginning, middle and an end.” His wisdom continues to prevail today. We’ll break it down in this module.
Learn how to conduct an interesting interview
We reveal ten essential tips on how to make your video interview a powerful one! These broadcast journalism techniques will enable you to be prepared, make your subject comfortable, and create a video that looks great and has substance.
Week Three
It’s time to make your first film!
In today’s global world we are more connected than ever before…and yet, paradoxically, many of us often feel more alone, alienated, different, and less-than. The feeling of belonging is deeply inscribed in human nature. We all belong to something, yet it is a unique experience for each one of us.
With the Flip the Lens Belonging Project, you’ll interview someone about the concept of belonging, asking three questions that are simple, and yet sure to elicit powerful and highly personal views on this universal dimension of being human.
Week Four
Your next assignment as a Flip the Lens Culture Correspondent is to create a film for the Creativity Project.
You’ll conduct another three-question interview; this one will explore what it means to be creative.
Is there someone you know who has used imagination, ingenuity and originality to solve a problem? Or pioneered a new vision? Or create a unique piece of art?
Be part of building a body of documentary art that chronicles our human condition!
Week Five
Dive into Your Third Assignment with the Culture Project
Culture is both universal and personal. Culture provides ways to both express our individuality, and to see ourselves in others. Flip the Lens invites you to explore the meaning of culture by filming someone responding to three provocative questions. Be part of a movement to contribute to peace and understanding, and minimize misunderstanding and prejudice!
Week Six
Embark on Making a Mini Documentary with a Day in the Life of a Culture Creator
A core part of understanding the human experience is learning how different people live their lives and seeing how they contribute to humanity with their everyday actions
Create a “Day in the Life” video and film the activities of someone you think has an interesting life! Document what they do everyday that somehow makes an impact in their community, or the world at large.
Week Seven
Now it’s time to submit your work and get it published!
We’ll walk you through how to upload your four videos for review. You’ll get our feedback and any suggested revisions within five business days.
Once you make the requested edits, re-submit your videos. If all the recommendations have been addressed, your videos will be published on the Flip the Lens Youtube channel within five business days. These will appear as your playlist and serve as an impressive digital portfolio! Bravo!
The Details
When?
Anytime!
This course is online and on-demand.
Engage with it at your convenience!
Where?
Anywhere!
100% with down-loadable modules so you can go at your own pace!
The Flip the Lens Culture Correspondent course gives you the skills and structure to conduct three powerful interviews and one mini documentary. We present you with storytelling and interviewing techniques and tips; technical tutorials; templates for creating four videos; and we’ll publish and promote your finished pieces!
Who?
This course is for creative, altruistic high school and college students who want to make an impact and are ready to get started as video creators. Eligibility:
- 9th-12th grade, college and Master’s students
- Located anywhere in the world
- Fluent in English
- Have access to a phone or camera with video capability
- Have a basic understanding of video editing and access to an editing tool
The Cost
Cost
The cost for the Flip the Lens Culture Correspondent 7-module course and publication of your four videos on the FTL Youtube channel is $325.
Payment
Click on the button below to complete payment for the course via PayPal.
use digital devices in a way that creates a sense of purpose, meaning, and well-being;
develop interpersonal skills of curiosity, respect, listening, and empathy;
foster greater understanding of the human condition;
celebrate our unique differences and shared humanity;
learn storytelling, interviewing, production planning;
create digital portfolios;
participate in social change.
Ready to Begin Creating Videos & Building Your Portfolio?
Download the Culture Correspondent Course Now!
Schools Our Alumni Attend
Meet Flip the Lens co-founder Meg!
Meg has been engaged in telling people’s stories for more than 30 years. Her award-winning career has blended expertise in writing; editing; interviewing; public relations; and brand building. Meg has a diversified set of credentials: a corporate career as the founding member of PR departments for four major financial services firms; consulting assignments to create communications platforms/infrastructure for non-profits; a portfolio of bylines for media and corporate publications and memoirs ghostwritten for private clients; and founder of website People Are Culture.
Meg has been the recipient of PR Week’s First Place Award for Small Corporate Communications Team of the Year and named one of five finalists for PR Professional of the Year; New England Publicity Club’s First Place Bell Ringer Award for public affairs campaign and two organizational identity campaign awards; Bulldog Bronze Award for product/company positioning.
The thread throughout Meg’s wide range of interests is an endless fascination with people’s stories. She has an abiding passion for helping others to “connect the dots,” engaging them in a process to discover what makes them unique and discern the value their experiences can offer others.