Ideas for using Prezi

The way in which Prezi can be used to enhance our multimedia performance is endless. Because the way it seamlessly flows from one point another there are many different ways that we can manipulate this medium to create a more in-depth performance.

If we decide to include the two minute hate scene because of the way you can insert pictures and videos we can film footage of us screaming abuses and angry shouting then go on to pictures of scary images like bugs and war and other such things to do with hate related atrocities. We can then put it on a loop and add in some scary atmospheric music and we can keep going round and round in a circle giving the audience a perpetual feeling of dread and decay.

Because with Prezi you have the ability to zoom in and out of images and sentences we could use this to our advantage. If I inserted an image of a brain and then zoomed into it I could have a whole lot of complex things happening beneath the surface. I could have words like "thought criminal" and "doublethink" to educate the audience what is going on inside the head of someone who lives in the world of 1984 to give them further context into the world that the characters live in.

On the subject of adding context to a performance we could illustrate the war. We could show which province holds which territories in relation to the real world. We could make use of arrows or pointers and have a section where a general is explaining the war tactics in which they wants to employ. We could take the section at the end of the book were Oceania take over a section of Africa and we can display the military tactics that were used to make this a reality.

Because of the way you can stitch different subjects together and create smooth transitions between events like if you want to completely change the tone in room. For example if you had a video clip of angry voices screaming at the audience then suddenly it changes to a sound clip of classical music leaving the audience daze and confused.

Finally, I could utilize Prezi's inserting and embedding other types of files like video and sound bites. We could utilize this and use it basically as a save file for any video we need to show and make it flow effortlessly within the performance. If we need to cue a sound effect of a bone breaking we could cue it on the Prezi to go exactly in time with the live action.