Lab Field Trips: Show, Don’t Tell
Registration is now open for the 2026-2027 academic year!
This program opens the doors to our Media Arts Lab and welcomes local students to engage with film and storytelling techniques through film analysis and hands-on, project based learning. Each workshop includes active film viewing, discussion, a media making activity, and a presentation. Join us for one of these engaging and exciting educational experiences!
Lab Field Trips: Show, Don’t Tell
Location: The JBFC Media Arts Lab
Cost: $20/Student or FREE for under-resourced schools
Time: 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
Capacity: 25 Students (Max)
Grades: 5th-12th
Lab Field Trips: Information for Schools
Bring your class to the JBFC’s Media Arts Lab to participate in a hands-on filmmaking workshop introducing students to the foundational storytelling technique of “Show, Don’t Tell.” This film and literary technique empowers the viewer to experience a story through actions, senses, and feelings rather than exposition, dialogue, and description.
Over the course of a 3 hour workshop, students will engage with short films exploring the “Show Don’t Tell” technique, learn basic shot type language and storyboarding skills, and make a short scene of their own. The entire experience culminates in a celebratory screening of the day’s projects in the Lab’s onsite movie theater.
Goals:
- Practice 21st century skills
- Understand how media is made and impacts us
- Practice storytelling and empathy building
- Strengthen an understanding of visual literacy
- Build film language
- Create and share a group film project
Skills:
- Project-based Creative Teamwork
- Critical and Active Viewing or “Landmarking”
- Storytelling Technique of “Show, Don’t Tell”
- Filmmaking Techniques & Language: Shot Types
- Filmmaking Process: Pre-production (Storyboarding), Production, Post-production
- Technical Skills: Filming and Editing (iPad)
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