A Prezi presentation can be a great way to help you get your story in a visual way. You can find several Prezi Templates that you could use to tell your story with great metaphors.
Make sure to check our lesson on What is a Prezi Template? and the Advanced section on Working with Templates.
Also, she suggests that mountains can be a great visual metaphor to describe goals. A mountain is climbing, goals, and efforts, so it would be smart to have them in your Prezi to communicate strategies.
Here are some tips and tricks that Mandy shares with us to effectively use visual metaphors.
In order to make the right moves and make sure your audience understands your metaphor, you should keep metaphors simple. The purpose of a metaphor is to clear up concepts, so if it takes you a long time to explain a connection between two concepts, use another comparison.
Another tip to effectively use metaphors is to be original. Mandy affirms that a cliché is always a metaphor, but a metaphor doesn’t always have to be a cliché. This means that you need to challenge yourself and don’t fall into a metaphor that everybody is using; if you are original, you will engage your audience.
To be relevant is another tip that Mandy mentions. When using a metaphor, the two concepts have to be linked to one another in some way. It’s all about reaching a conclusion together and seeing the big picture to feel like an “aha moment.”
Another tip is the importance of the metaphor. This means that not everything that you share needs to be a comparison. You need to use metaphors strategically, using the metaphor to emphasize a concept.
Emotions are one of the most important tips that she mentions, not only talking about metaphors but also the whole presentation. You need to think; What do you want them to remember? Metaphors usually help get emotions a bit deeper; you can use sensory experiences in a metaphor, such as sight, feeling, scent, taste, or hearing.
Finally, you should target your audience and consider using metaphors that will be relevant to the public in order to increase effectiveness.
Don’t forget to check Guilherme Criscuolo’s Prezi Video Hacks!