2. Consulting the practitioners

As a reminder: heritage communities are at the heart of each safeguarding process. 

If you're not one yourself, then always take care to consult practitioners and, where appropriate, larger stakeholder groups in your documentation process.

In order to do so, you might consider organising meetings with practitioners. Here you can jointly decide on the practice to be documented, on practitioners who wish to be involved/filmed, on the goal of the documentation project, on time and budget and any other concern that might surface during these encounters.

It is likely that there will also be questions about authorship and intellectual property. It is good to address these aspects at the beginning of your process. 

Here you can find some examples of legal documents and release forms regulating the ownership of the documentation (who owns (the rights to) which footage and/or end results?) to be produced and the partnerships within the project.