lds general conference behind the scenes. the seventy receive assignments to speak for 9 minutes;...
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The Seventy receive assignments to speak for 9 minutes; Apostles for 15-20. Thirty speakers typically speak.
The Conference Center is cleaned; curbs repainted; florists begin planning arrangements two months prior; lighting crews ensure that the
6000 light bulbs each work.
Security teams memorize faces and names of security threats that may arrive among the 100,000 participants that come to the 1.4 million square foot conference center.
Speakers and choir directors are given the last sentence of the speakers talk that
precedes their talk/song so they know when to be ready.
157 of the 341 hymns in the LDS hymnal have been sung at general conferences; there are 7,667 pipes in the organ.
Pulpit measurements are taken so the microphone is centered on the speakers tie knot (males) or neckline (females)Speakers are told not to touch the microphone.
Members of the Seventy receive 6 tickets to conference for friends and family; apostles are given 25 tickets.
Conference is broadcasts through seven live cameras by 105 full time employees and translated live into 94 languages by the 800 members of the volunteer translation team and their 58 booths to 197 countries; broadcast signals are sent to 2,177
cable stations and to 7,450 church facilities worldwide.
Church social media teams choose five phrases during each talk to tweet. Memes are created and published via Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Vine, GooglePlus, etc.
After each session, the Prophet is first to leave, followed by his counselors and the Quorum of 12
Apostles.
Monday morning, after conference, each speaker receives two versions if their talks - the one that
was approved by the correlation department and a second that reflects their exact words they
spoke; they submit a final version for publication.
Videos are available immediate following
each session on lds.org; text
transcripts are published the
Thursday after conference; the
Ensign publication of talks is printed 3
weeks after.