Is the film getting marketed? If so, you might have to worry a little more. If its just a little ditty then don't worry.

And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost (1874-1963

I would like to market it; if it makes it past my test audience. How do you do the face fuzz thing like when your interviewing someone and all the others around are fuzzed? (You can tell I'm a green filmmaker I don't know what the term is for that.) I just thought maybe crowd shots that where too far away for anyone to notice themselves would be alright. I don't want any trouble though so that's why I'm seeking advice.

One way to do it is duplicate your shot so that you have two layers. Make one layer entirely fuzzy in your editing program and cut a hole/mask so your interview subject on the unfuzzed layer beneath shows through.

Similar idea is to have the under layer fuzzy and mask out the faces of each person on the top layer so that the fuzzy layer shows through.

I'm trying to be generic in my terms here because I don't know what editing program you'll be using (and to be honest haven't done it yet) but the theory should work.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

I'm going to try the two layered thing. Thanks.

Here is a tutorial I ran across a while back. You may have already seen it ?url? http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Blur-or-Highlight-a-Moving-Face/2682?/url?. I don't really remember if it was a good tutorial. I would preview it before posting it but I'm up at my cottage right now in the middle of no-where and I only have a 26k internet connection. I hope the tutorial isn't a waste of your time.

Worry about fuzzing it only once you've gotten to the point where you'll need to market it. Blurring the background from the onset might get a bit distracting for your test audience. Let them see your docufilm in it's full glory to begin with. Get it fuzzed later when you'll need to.