Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Studio: New Riders Press
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0321647041
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,484 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Best-selling author and authority on presentation design and delivery Garr Reynolds invites you to create provocative presentations with solid designs and Zen simplicity. In this personal, one-on-one video, Garr expands on his ideas from his popular book, Presentation Zen, and blog, presentationzen.com, and challenges you to go beyond the conventional slide presentation style and think more creatively to achieve simpler, more effective presentations.

Within an hour viewers will learn to:

• plan and prepare your presentations, and craft their story with storyboarding techniques.
• utilize design principles that show viewers to communicate messages more effectively and emotionally.
• deliver their presentations by successfully connecting with their audience.

Presentation Zen has won numerous awards, most recently a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a a Silver Telly Award.

This is a video DVD.
Run time: 50 minutes
Languages: English
Subtitles: Japanese and Spanish
Closed Captioned in English

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, November 18, 2009

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This turned out to be a lighter video than expected.
I would stick with the book which is excellent and ignore the video.
Brett

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a PowerPoint Book But Much Much More, January 17, 2010

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Brent A. Ross (Springfield, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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If you have ever sat through a poorly constructed presentation and found it painful this book is for you. You may have like me even given some of these painful presentations in your career. The book is not about making slides or PowerPoint presentations. It is about the creative process and communicating your message and how to use visuals to improve that message. The book gives many ideas for brainstorming, designing and building your presentation. There are many examples of good and poor design, before and after and concepts to get rid of stuff in your presentation that only detracts from your message. There are other resources the book references that can also help. After buying this book I purchased the video that goes along it and found it to be very helpful as well.

I work in a technical field and was scepital how this method of presenation could work with data. I found excellent advise on how to present data, graphs, charts without losing the point in all the detail.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must for any educator!, August 29, 2009

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GaryB "garybau" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

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Presentation Zen as a book has been available for some time. This DVD provides a simple overview for those yet to be convinced to invest time and effort into improving their communications.

Every educator needs to see this!
..and learn how to KIS...

Presentation Zen a must have in every school and faculty library

one step further would have every educator use keynote instead of powerpoint...but that may be a step too far...