Hi-Ground Media Shoots Red Bull Rampage with Element Technica Pulsar 3D Rig

Gregg Katano and Ajay Relan, the creative team behind Hi-Ground Media, and Producer/Director Wayne Miller of Action 3D Productions selected Element Technica’s Pulsar 3D rig for the Red Bull Rampage 3D: The Evolution shoot. The recent production, shot in Virgin, Utah, captures the story of five top riders from around the world, competing at the world’s most extreme freestyle mountain biking event.

“The location was in the rugged, dusty mountains of Virgin, Utah, in close proximity to Zion Park,” explains Executive Producer and Hi-Ground founder Gregg Katano. “The ride began at about 6000 feet, and the rugged, rocky terrain required us to move cameras/rigs into position each day via SUVs and manpower.” Acton 3D’s Wayne Miller continues. “We  encountered everything from rain to wind storms as we followed these riders as they prepared for the event, built their ‘lines’ (the path they would take down the mountain course), interviewed them and captured their practice sessions during the days leading up to the event.

“We’ve been working with Element Technica for two years, beginning with the inception of their line of 3D rigs,” adds Miller. “The rigs are robust and the technical support is of the highest quality. They bring state-of-the-art technology and technical support to maintaining their rigs.”

Element Technica’s Pulsar is engineered to stereoscopically mount mid-sized and box-style digital cameras such as the Scarlet, Epic, SI-2K, Sony EX3 and P1. Element Technica feature robust construction and the ability to be set-up and precisely aligned in a short period of time. Additionally, ET 3D rigs are camera agnostic, and the same rig can be configured in side-by-side or beam-splitter modes.

“The Pulsar carried a high-speed camera system with DigiPrime lenses,” says Miller. We really put it  through its paces in the challenging environmental conditions which required daily movement. “ET’s equipment was more than up to the challenge and allowed us to get some unbelievable images,” supervising producer Ajay Relan adds.