Module 10 · Lesson 2 of 3
Check every real person in your film.
Some faces and voices you may use, and some you never may. Go through every real person in your film, one by one.
The steps
Your own face and voice: yes.
Anyone else’s face or voice: only with their written permission.
An email or text that says “Yes, you can put me in your film” counts. Keep it.
Never a famous person’s face or voice.
Never a copy of the voice of someone who has died, even with the family’s permission.
A copy of a real person’s voice is called a voice clone.
Children
Never make an AI version of a real child.
A true story about a child uses their real photo, unchanged, and an adult narrator.
Someone who has died
A true story about someone who has died: get the family’s permission first.
Get it in writing. Their voice still stays off limits.
Make your checklist
Fill in the checklist below. Your characters are already listed: say who plays each one, and add any other real person, yourself included.
Your film
My FilmsFill it in here. It saves as you type, and later lessons use it.
Do this now
List every real person in your film and whether you have permission.
Check yourself
- Is every real person in your film on your checklist?
- Do you have written permission from everyone who isn’t you?
- Is your film free of famous faces, AI versions of real children and copied voices of people who have died?
If any answer is no, go back over the steps, or look below.
Stuck?
- A friend said yes out loud.
- Ask them to text or email the same words. A spoken yes is hard to show later.
- My story is about a real child.
- Use their real photo, unchanged, and an adult narrator. Never make an AI version of them.
- A family said yes to copying their loved one’s voice.
- Still don’t. Have an adult narrator read their words, or show their written words on screen.
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