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Sarah Boland on the TechVancouver stage

Sarah Boland

Founder & CEO, Life Lapse

Creator ToolsVancouverOn TechVancouver stages since 2018

Sarah Boland founded Life Lapse, the Vancouver stop-motion app, in 2017. It began as a way for expectant mothers to document a bump week by week; users turned it into a product-video tool and she rebuilt it for that. A film-school graduate who worked in video marketing, she demoed it on the TechVancouver stage in January 2018.

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First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sarah

In their words

The app launched end of September, so just under four months now. We've gotten thirty-five thousand downloads to date and ninety-one App Store features — across 91 countries. That's where most of my downloads have been coming from.

TechVancouver, Jan 2018 · watch at 0:26

You can see on the screen her image is now overlaid — that's our guideline. Traditionally, if you wanted to do this with a DSLR camera, you'd need a tripod and probably a measuring tape to align where it is.

TechVancouver, Jan 2018 · watch at 3:26
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Quick answers

What is Life Lapse?

A phone app for making stop-motion videos — ghosted frame overlays, timing controls and export presets — used mostly for social and brand content.

How did it start?

As a pregnancy montage tool. When people used it for everything else, Boland relaunched it as a general stop-motion app.

What is her background?

Toronto Film School, then a career in video marketing before building the app.

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