Jack
DiLorenzo
Critical Analysis of Prezi
Prezi is a new creative way to
create and share presentations. With Prezi, you can make your presentations
captivate the audience in a way never done before by using tools Prezi provides
to make your presentation both professional and entertaining. The scope of
Prezi’s skills goes far beyond that of Microsoft PowerPoint. Prezi was launched
in April 2009 and it’s been helping both businessmen and entertainers get their
point across over the medium of presentations. The word Prezi is actually the
shortened version of the Hungarian translation for presentation.
Prezi is incredibly useful in the
world of business. With Prezi, you can impress your employers, colleagues, or
future customers with very advanced and impressive looking presentations. With
Prezi, your idea will stand out against everyone else’s. I think the Prezi puts
it best when they say, “If your idea is different from others, why is your
presentation the same?” Also, you can collaborate with up to ten different
people on your presentation world-wide. This makes working on group projects
incredibly easy without having to make multiple copies of the same presentation
or having to work on it all together in person. It also can make handing in
projects a lot easier. With a simple click, your project can be on the computer
screen of your boss. One downside of Prezi is that everyone might start using
this and with that, the individuality and quality of Prezi presentations will
decrease and it will become and obsolete product. The other downside is that
making these presentations might be too difficult and time consuming and will
hurt the chances of getting an idea across. Another downside is that if two
people have ideas to improve their company and the first one has a better idea
but a lackluster presentation while the second has a very bad idea but a very flashy
and colorful Prezi presentation, the bad idea would be chosen because of the
quality of the presentation rather than the quality of the idea and that’ll
hurt the company.
Prezi can also be used to entertain
the viewer in addition to its business uses. With Prezi, it becomes easy to exemplify
and visualize an entertaining idea to an audience. Prezi is used multiple times
on web-series such as TEDTalks, which is a series of videos meant to entertain
and inform people on such topics ranging from questions about the universe to
the discussion about the sixth sense. With Prezi assisting in the presentation
of these incredible and entertaining ideas, people understand the topics a lot
better. The only problem with using Prezi for entertainment is that its overuse
will lead to deterioration of the quality of presentations. Also, not many
people will look to presentations as a huge source of entertainment.
