Limitless Festival is a 5 day summer youth event held at the Staffordshire Showground.

I lead a team capturing the event and creating content for online and socials.

‍• Photos of the whole event

• Daily video highlights

• Daily social content

• Worship recordings

• Collection of main stage footage

• Week Highlights/Promo for the following year

This years brief for the overall highlights was slightly different to others we have done in previous years. This year, they wanted audio of people's experiences from the week over the images. The challenge with this was going to be the editing. Highlight/Promos are normally short and snappy. People talking would not only try and lengthen the video but also slow down the feel of the video.

Another problem was finding the festival before's highlight video (in the same location) also seemed to have a very similar brief, so Limitless Festival needed to feel and look completely different to theirs.

From working with Sarah at Limitless Festival over many years, I have come to develop a sense of confident assurance in her work. This year was no exception. For the main highlight video I wanted to take a different approach than in previous years; capturing young people’s stories from a first-hand perspective. I had imagined this might necessitate sacrificing some of the overall event capture and high-energy of her previous work… but Sarah proved me wrong! Sarah was able to find a creative way to both capture stories and maintain the vibrant energy of the Festival, all without undermining the integrity of the stories themselves. It was my favourite piece of work from Sarah so far, and I’ve no doubt there will be more of equal calibre to come! - Tim Alford, National Director, Limitless.

The main aim of the Festival is to tell its story by showing what's happening throughout the week and sharing its stories. As you can imagine, there are a lot of stories and things to capture with a very full schedule.

Two of Limitless' central values are 'Family is our Heart' and 'Fun is our Spirit'. When creating our content, these two values are always in our thoughts and having a balance of both—fun and Family/Community.

Our daily highlights aim to capture the essence of the day. They are an essential part of our content as they are played every morning in the main venue for people to see. When the youth groups see themselves on the screen, there is always a cheer, and it creates that feeling of 'being a part of it'.

My team is made up of volunteers, and the mix of people changes every year. Our jobs are long hours and hard work, but I always aim to let them have ideas, try things out, and be creative. Trying to give them as many opportunities to grow and develop their skills as possible throughout the week.