In today’s studio, Seth talked about the idea of capturing Lentara stories through a short doc format to profile them as a web series. Hence, I decided to analyze Lentara’s past videos.

 

Hanif’s Story 

Firstly, the main limitation of this video would be identity restrictions as only audio and very general images are permitted. I think that the video can be added with motion, for example: a pan short of Hanif’s Asylum Seeker housing. The still images can also be replaced with more hand movements in the shot, for example the image of serving food can be replaced with a video of serving food at the same limited angle shot. I would suggest a music for the background that helps trigger the viewers emotion to avoid outshining the story of the video.

 

A Home With A Heart

This video was presented in Lentara’s Asylum Seekers crowdfunding campaign. I would say that this video is quite a success as they managed to reach their goals of funding. The video uses direct PTC shots, supporting interview content visually through shots of asylum seeker housing and people that captures the heart of the audiences.

Although there is still room for improvement in Lentara’s videos, I find the major problem to be the low number of subscribers on their Youtube channel.