A new six-part documentary called "Does Gaming Affect Education?" produced by Lewis is set to premiere on Channel 4 on January 6th, 2017 at 6pm. Lewis questioned whether gaming truly affected education after seeing conflicting news reports and observing how gaming affected his friends. He conducted extensive research, interviewing professionals, teenagers, teachers and traveling to schools and Channel 4 to understand different perspectives on the topic. The documentary follows Lewis' journey and was greenlit by Channel 4 after Lewis submitted an early clip and pitched the full concept. It provides surprising facts about gaming's influence and aims to be an eye-opening exploration of its effects on education.

1. Brand new six-part documentary about gaming and how it affects education is yet to
make its debut on Monday 6th January 2017 at 6pm on Channel 4. Lewis, isn’t a
typical ’ordinary guy’, he has produced an extraordinary documentary on something
he feels has been effecting his friend and people of his age range. As of this, we are
extremely ecstatic to speak to him about his upcoming documentary on Channel 4
called “Does gaming affect education?”. As someone who is aware of this industry of
documentaries and filming, you never ever hear of someone who has gone from
‘nothing’ to high up there. Lewis has stated that he’s been “wanting to make this
documentary since he started his education, it has been something he’s felt
passionate about since seeing many news articles slating the gaming industry and
how it affects education”. Growing up as a child in Birmingham, Lewis was always
surrounded by games, but who wasn’t? He was never addicted to gaming but
enjoyed them thoroughly and perhaps would miss out on homework to play with
friends. He went to School and College like any normal child/teenager and never felt
that gaming was directly affecting his own education but does know of friends who
did in fact from his point of view prioritised gaming over education. As of this, Lewis
actively questioned whether or not gaming actually affected one’s education, he
would always ask friends if it damaged their education since he never actually felt it
himself. However, needless to say, he did believe that perhaps the times he has
played games were not very productive and thus doing work or homework would
have been better. Lewis was approached by Channel 4 when he sent his first 5
minutes of his documentary to a” documentary competition”, he was in his own
words “amazed”. He believes that is was extremely weird for someone likes himself
to have received a call from one of the “top men” at Channel 4, he felt awkward.
However, after getting over his nerves he pitched what the rest of his documentary
would be about and they “wanted to start recording the rest as soon as possible”. I
think this is an amazing achievement for Lewis, he deserves it a lot for his hard work,
I personally know that he has taken so many hours out of his life to create this
documentary which will go out to thousands of people and as of that I applause him.
People may question, is gaming really that serious? The answer to that shockingly
would be yes. 75% of teenagers actually play games frequently, making is a force to
be reckoned with, imagine every one of these teenagers perhaps could have gotten
an extra grade or two if they never played games, people in education would be
much better off. 1/10 every day children lack social skills which has been linked to
them playing too many games. This documentary is a massive whale of emotions
with incredible research backed by facts and follows Lewis as he sets out on an
adventure throughout his college to find out if gaming affects education. He meets a
huge variety of people such as professionals, teenagers, teachers and asks for their
opinions surrounding the topic. Lewis travels through Solihull Sixth form, to Solihull
Centre to the Channel 4 studio! “I wasn’t expecting this documentary to be such an
eye opener to myself and friends”. If there’s anything you should get from this article
is that this is not a documentary to miss. The first episode will be aired on Monday
6th January 2017 at 6pm on Channel 4 and will also be available on 4OD.