A Forsaken Provider

Lewis grew up in the countryside until he moved with his father and brother to a small Staffordshire market town. Lewis was home schooled for a lot of his childhood, since his autism spectrum disorder and subsequent bullying made school difficult and unproductive. He was later accepted to the under-16s course at Stafford College which is where the recovery of his formal education began. It was on this course, where he found his passion for filmmaking, creating a short film named SCP: Descent into darkness with nothing but an action camera and a free, lightweight editing software.

At this moment he was 15 years old, and the course was disbanded. As all courses were now limited to the over-16s, this left him aimless for another year before he could return to college on the creative media production course... Arriving with nothing but a passion for the subject, this course's tutor took a chance on Lewis and allowed him entry.

Due to lack of educational experience, Lewis' work was lacklustre at the beginning, ending the Level 2 Course with a Merit Pass (Grade b and c). He progressed to the Level 3 creative media Production course and began trying his hardest. He often tested new techniques and technologies for hours before resting and helped in the creation of a small production crew named MiniStudioz. As a result of this effort, Lewis left the college course with one of the highest grades in his class, a Distinction*, Distinction*, Distinction (A*A* A). This was accompanied with an award for Outstanding Achievement 2021 and several short-film projects which he took part in creating.

This was the true beginning of Lewis' career aspirations.
He went on to study at Manchester Metropolitan University the following year, traveling 3hours and 20minutes per day to partake in taught lessons. Although his ambition was strong, he realised that the travel time was reducing opportunities to network and partake in projects.

After some research he found that the closest university to him (Staffordshire University) was the best fit, focusing heavily on the technicalities of film production by building the knowledgebase of its students for production and distribution. Retaking his first year turned out to be the correct decision as he managed to participate in several filming projects throughout the year, travel to France for a film festival and have his first professional non-fiction project screened in Metz.

Lewis' Previous project SoulGuard was his penultimate Award-Winning project within The University and he has drastically refined his skills for his final project A Forsaken Provider. He hopes to refine his skills even further to create a Company which produces high quality content narrative content.