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I have the opportunity of travelling to Ghana accompanying a literacy charity. It is likely to be the final trip for the 4 co-founders who are all now in their 80s. I have offered to join them to help, but while I’m there, I suggested I might document the occasion through photo and video. I’m comfortable on the photo side but have very little experience shooting video and was looking for some advice on essential kit that might make the whole process easier and make sure I get decent footage for editing when I return. I was thinking of taking the following:

• Sony A1
• Sony A9
• 100-400 GM
• 24 GM
• 90 G
• 24-105 G (this is the lens I’ve mostly used for video)
• Variable ND for the 24-105
• Travel tripod
• GoPro 10
• Magic Air 2s drone
• Sony ECM-XYST1M microphone
• Air blower for cleaning

I also have 2 x 160gb cf express A cards and 3 x np-fz1000 batteries.

Just looking at this list, my first concerns are storage (including back up for footage) and batteries for the Sony cameras.

We will be in some of the remotest parts of Ghana, so I’m hoping for some incredible dark skies (night timelapse) and that I won’t need permission to use the drone.

Any thoughts would be very welcome. I’m paying my own way on this trip, but it’s an amazing project so I hope to be able to do the charity justice and bring back some great footage for them.