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Posted on 23-03-2015 at 9:14 p.m.

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VIDEO. "L'Observateur" you presented a dizzying timelapse of the tide of the century last Saturday. How has he achieved? Making of.

Fanny Lesbros Mont-Saint-Michel 20 March 2015 (Fanny Lesbros)

At a time when the whole of France was trying to observe the solar eclipse , Friday, March 20, Fanny Lesbros, journalist-videographer to "Obs" was in the TGV to Mont-Saint-Michel. With one goal: make a timlapse THE timelapse of the tide of the century.

The result is magical: 47 seconds of pure vertigo above the rising water and cover the abbey, shot with obvious that leaves nothing to imagine the difficulties to achieve ... Fanny Lesbros recounts his adventures.

Watching:

Time lapse of the "Tide of the Century" at Mont ... by LeNouvelObservateur

Math exercises

"A timelapse is super complicated to implement. First, you have to calculate in advance how often to take pictures at regular intervals, so that in the end it makes a film. I finally programmed the "Interval", the box which automatically triggers the device every 6 seconds.

Another concern: the sun. I had planned to film from two locations: the bell tower of the abbey, and a point further away in front, in the bay. But I had to find myself especially not against the light. To find the best places I looked full of photos, sunset, sunrise ...

At the top of the bell tower

To climb to the summit of Mont-Saint-Michel, you serpentes inside the building. At the end there is a church. At the back of the church, a small door. Behind two spiral staircases very narrow, 50 cm. You go, you go up, you go up. And at the top, it's not over. It should also climb ladders, perhaps four, completely vertical. With a wall in the back and front of the empty, right, left. Obviously, you can not go up there with a load ... To hoist my equipment, journalists from France 3 have helped me to make a pulley system with a rope!

Once up, the great swindle. I find myself on a circular corridor 40 cm wide, with a railing that just happens to me above the waist. The wind blows so that the guys from France 3 offer me to strap the foot of my camera on the railing. They start by telling me that they will come back, but never returned.So I find myself perched up there, all alone, with 6 hours to kill before me.

The falcon

To keep warm, I wear a woolen tights, jeans, fur boots, two shirts, two sweaters, a hat, a parka, scarf and especially big mittens. I took comics too. I am beginning to find my feet in the middle of dead birds, when the guy in charge of organizing, Frédéric Pasquier, comes to see me panic. He had not realized I was going to stay.

He's afraid I have cold, I fall ... More than anything, he is afraid of the falcon.Because on the corridor, there is a wooden cube: the house of the falcon. We had not told me. I better understand the presence of dead birds ...

Frédéric afraid that the hawk was absent for the time comes, would harm the device or to me, I have a bad reflex, I flip in the air.

Then he finds me a little shelter. No bigger than a toy box, stuck in the frame. The advantage is that I can hear the clicks of my camera. The disadvantage is that the frame squeaks, because of the wind, and I always feel that it is the hawk comes ... Besides, whatever the position in which I put, j 'have ants in the feet.

I wait, I wait. I read my comics, " Other people ". Sea levels are rising slowly.Nothing very impressive. Frédéric Pasquier me a new fright, saying that France 3 called the prefecture and all projos will light up at the same time, just below the camera, the most impressive moment. But ultimately, nothing.

Nothing until 18:30. And here is me alone at the spectacle. Whoa! The water rises at full speed. I saw a moment of ill.

Making-of Time-lapse by LeNouvelObservateur

Small mound

On Saturday, I set my heart more wisely on a small mound of dirt in the bay.Chosen by chance, but is the best place, make sure a photographer who is placed in the same location. Water surrounds us quickly but stops in time.Good, I do not have rubber boots.

Show my friend, David, is a professional timelapseur. We tell our adventures, he teaches me a lot of technical stuff, time passes faster. Want to see a timelapse? It will be broadcast on Thalassa, France 3, Friday.

Assessment of the experience: it was my first timelapse and it was great. In addition, I discovered that I was not dizzy. I'm pretty claustrophobic I think.And for now, the "Obs" did not ask me to film in a hole! "