2 New Videos Released in ‘Behind the Scenes of General Conference’ Series

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released two additional videos to its “Behind the Scenes of General Conference” series that highlights a few of the countless tasks that thousands of employees and volunteers on various teams perform every six months to ensure the worldwide general conference is executed successfully.

A new video released on Saturday, September 27, shows the teamwork behind publishing the general conference editions of the Church’s magazines. A video released on Saturday, September 20, focuses on the broadcast team.

The purpose of the “Behind the Scenes of General Conference” video series is “to thank the many hands and hearts for whom general conference is a labor of love,” said Elder Robert M. Daines, General Authority Seventy in March, when the Church released three videos on the work of the staging crew, guest services and interpreters just before the April 2025 general conference.

Learn more in this related Newsroom article. Behind-the-Scenes Videos: How Various Teams Help Make General Conference a Success

By highlighting individual and personal stories, the series seeks to demonstrate the colossal efforts, volume and large numbers needed to execute each conference.

Behind the Scenes of General Conference — Magazines

Regular issues of the Church magazines can take as long as 10 months to complete, beginning with writing and editing the words, selecting photographs, designing the visuals, translating the issues into dozens of languages, and finally, printing and binding the physical magazines and publishing them online.

“For general conference, we’re literally doing it in just a few days,” said Michael Dunford, art director for the “Liahona.”

“Each conference issue is twice as big as a regular issue and yet we’re putting it together in a fraction of the time,” said Garry Garff, a copy editor. “It’s a small miracle that we get that out.”

“At the end of the day, people might not know everything that went into the magazines,” he explained. “What is most important is that the spirit of the Lord is in it. And that’s our goal.”

“I have never forgotten that feeling of reverence and awe that I get to take a message from general conference and put it in a format that can be distributed all throughout the world,” said David Dickson, “For the Strength of Youth” managing editor.

“The core of the message is for the individual, said Dunford. “Christ is interested in ‘the one.’”

Behind the Scenes of General Conference — Broadcast

From rehearsing individually with each speaker to wrapping cables and putting tape on the floor, the entire production of certain elements of general conference are highly coordinated, tested and rehearsed. Redundancies are built into the process, and every role on the broadcast team is significant.

“We’re just nothing but instruments in the Lord’s hand,” said Paul Miller, director of broadcast and events. “There are no small roles because every person has a unique role to play and that all contributes to the greater whole, so this goes out as one powerful message to the world.”

“It’s because we love the Lord and we want to make His message shine so that people can focus on what the message is and what is being delivered,” said Jackson Holmes, broadcast production coordinator.

General conference is “an opportunity for all of our Heavenly Father’s children to … see and understand the gospel,” said Paul Miller, director of broadcast and events.

“Three weeks after general conference is over, we start working on the next conference,” said broadcast producer Alan Rast.

“Obviously, it’s the most important event we do every year,” said Phil Fox, broadcast production coordinator.

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