The document discusses privacy rights under the UK's Human Rights Act 1998. Article 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was incorporated into UK law by the Act, provides that everyone has the right to respect for their private and family life, home, and correspondence. The summary protects individuals' privacy rights while filming a documentary by obtaining proper releases, avoiding filming private areas without consent, and not publishing sensitive personal information without permission.

1. Privacy
Privacy and the Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998 (the “Act”)
incorporated the European Convention on
Human Rights (the “Convention”) into UK law.
Article 8(1) of the Convention provides that
“everyone has the right to respect for his private
and family life, his home and his
correspondence.”

2. Legal issue to consider How this may effect my work What I can do about this?
Copyright of content
music and videos/archive
footage
I would need to pay royalty fees for my use
of found footage or music under-copyright.
This will effect the choice of music that is
available to me as I may not be able to use
music that would appeal to my target
audience.
For music I will need to get music from a copyright free source
such as Soundcloud. I could contact the relevant copyright
holder to see if I can seek permission as a student film maker.
The other way I could avoid copyright infringement would be if
I do not upload my finished work to any pubic sources such as
YouTube or Vimeo but this may impact on my distribution
I also have access to a selection of music tech students who
would be happy to make a soundtrack for my documentary
Location release/Recees
The company owns the rights to the
location for my interview at “Slam city
Skates” This means I have to have their
permission to film there. This could limit the
amount of places I can film. Furthermore I
will be filming at Skateparks which can be
an unsafe area.
I will have to get them to fill out a location release form. If they
say no I will have to get the interview at another location, this
is not too much of a problem as there are many well known
Skate spots that I can film at which can set the scene.
For filming at Skateparks as they are owned by the council this
does mean I will have to get them to fill out a release form for
filming their, if I don’t this could cause trouble later on if I
don’t have permission. I will take precautions to ensure the
safety of my camera and myself by filming around the edges
and not getting in the way.
Talent release/Personal
release
Some of the people I am interviewing may
turn around last minute and not want to to
show the footage even if they previously
agreed which could mean I could lose
substantial amounts of footage and
potentially disrupt the flow of my
documentary.
To prevent this I will get all participants in the documentary to
fill out talent release forms so that I can definitely use footage
of them. I will make sure they are happy throughout the
shooting so that they do not feel as if I am releasing the
footage without their consent so I will take their ideas into
account when filming to make sure everyone involved is happy
with the result.
Privacy The Human Rights act 1998 states that
“everyone has the right to respect for his
private and family life, his home and his
correspondence” This won’t really affect my
work as I am not planning to film any part of
the participants private or home life.
I will be careful to not ask personal questions and make sure
that anything private caught on camera is not published. I will
do this by showing the footage to the participants after
shooting.
Legal issues

3. Ethical Issuesethical issue to consider How this may effect my work What I can do about this?
Handling sensitive
information
If a participant has suffered has
suffered some sort of trauma or
injury getting this information may
be problematic if the participant is
emotional about it. This could mean
that I could have to remove some
parts from my documentary if the
participant does not want to talk
about it.
I could get around this by making sure before I start
filming that they are okay with the spreading of this
sensitive information. A way in which I could do this
is by giving them a copy of the questions I will ask
them a few weeks before so they can get to grips with
the questions so they are not shocked when it comes
Balance and Bias In my documentary I have to show
a balanced view on the topic. This
means that although I am very
passionate about it I cannot really
include my personal opinion as it
could influence the audience to
think a certain way. This also
means that I cannot have too much
footage or interviews for one side
of the argument. For example if all
the people I interview think
skateboarding is the best sport the
show would be very biased.
To get Around this I will ask open questions and I will
not ask leading questions. This is to get a personal
qualitative answer from the people I interview.
Furthermore to make it interesting I will keep my
opinion unknown as if I am learning as I film the
documentary.
Representation of subject
Some participants in my
documentary may fell embarrassed
if they feel they look bad in a shot
or feel like they’ve been
misrepresented which could mean I
cannot use certain shots and
To get around this problem I will make sure to go
over the clips I film with the participant to make sure
they’re happy with what ive filmed and if they feel it
is a fair representation of their opinion. Furthermore I
will not edit any parts of the interviews to change how
their arguments sound for example I could cut bits out

4. Cont.
Representation of subject Some participants in my
documentary may fell
embarrassed if they feel they look
bad in a shot or feel like they’ve
been misrepresented which could
mean I cannot use certain shots
and interviews.
To get around this problem I will
make sure to go over the clips I
film with the participant to make
sure they’re happy with what ive
filmed and if they feel it is a fair
representation of their opinion.
Furthermore I will not edit any
parts of the interviews to change
how their arguments sound for
example I could cut bits out to
quote them out of context. This
would be unfair on the participant
so I will avoid cutting too much out
of the interview.
Ethical issues How this may affect my work What can I do about this
Injury of Participants In my documentary there will be
lots of footage of people skating,
this is a risk of potential injury. This
could backfire as they could argue
they were skating for my
documentary and were injured
whilst we were filming which could
be grounds for suing me.
To get around this I will need to
create a release form and get all
participants to sign it just in case.
This release form will be specially
for extreme sports and the contract
will be that they had a choice in
skating in my documentary so if an
injuries do occur it does not come
back to me.