Company founded by CoLab students and graduates offers short courses in digital media

18 Mar 2015

Bagabaga Studios, a company founded by CoLab Digital Media PhD students and alumni, has launched an innovative collection of short and effective courses in digital media and other tools.

Bagabaga's one-day "Cursos Relâmpago" (lightning courses) cover such diverse topics as video production with DSLRs and mobile phones, WordPress, field sketching, presentation design, JavaScript, and social media for organizations.

Bagabaga Studios is a Portugal-based co-op with participants from many disciplines in digital media production, training and research. Its director is co-founder Paulo Nuno Vicente, PhD graduate from the UT Austin|Portugal Program. Bagabaga is a member of UPTEC's Creative Industries Center (UPTEC PINC) at the University of Porto.

On Bagabaga Studios' Twitter feed they cite the short film "15 Frames" by co-founder Rui Avelans Coelho as the kind of work participants can learn to do from their training.

For more information see http://bagabagastudios.org/