Background Information

Hello there. My name is Jaden Hayes and I am 18 years old. I live in Birkdale, Southport with my family. I have spent most of my life living in Southport, but I haven’t lived here all my life. I used to live in Walton, Peterborough because my Father’s side of the family live down there. I was born there and lived there until the age of 6, but my family moved to Southport because we learned that my mother’s Father was very un-well and had developed CIDP in his leg, which mostly prevented him from walking, so she wanted to be close to him in case something happened. We moved here in 2006, just before the start of my Year 1 at School.

 

We lived at my Granparent’s house for a few years, while my father was looking for houses and living with his family because of his work. In 2008, we moved into our new home and we have been living there since. I went to Farnborough road Primary school and then Birkdale High School. I then found the Studio, which had courses on offer and the opportunities that were not provided in the other colleges around where I live. These included mixing A Levels and BTEC National Diplomas and possible internships to companies within most industries, especially the Gaming Industry, the industry that I am the most passionate about becoming a part of within the future. This is why I have taken the BTEC Level 3 Creative Media Production Extended Diploma, as my chose subject and pathway.

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Skills

In my opinion, I have always had a passion for drawing, even from an early age. As I can remember, I would draw things that I enjoyed or had seen in films or Television. These would be things like Spiderman and Bob the builder. These pieces of artwork were not masterpieces, but the fact that I started drawing so young, is probably why I enjoy drawing and have an interest in creating characters and environments, within the same world as these characters. While I have grown out of children’s programs and films such as Thomas the Tank engine and Bob the Builder, I still have a passion for comic book character like Spiderman. I also adapted an interest in gaming and playing games, which has helped me to design characters and environments within their world, as well as concepts for these games or other games similar to them. One game, that I can remember thinking about a concept for, was an Assassin’s Creed game.

 

Now I am a huge fan of the series and I have played all of them. I have created drawings for these games, as this is one of my interests. Sometime in 2014, I had an idea for an Assassin’s Creed game set within Industrial Revolution London. While I can’t remember exactly what I thought about, the fact that I had this idea is strange, as during that year, Assassin’s creed Unity came out. This game was set within French revolution Paris and had nothing to do with Victorian London, a time period over 100 years after Unity. Ubisoft also brought out Assassin’s Creed 3 in 2012, which was a game set in the American Revolution. It then occurred to me that Ubisoft was going down a revolution route, for their storylines, so it made perfect sense to bring out a game set in Industrial revolution. In 2015, the year after Unity came out, Syndicate came out and it was set in the Industrial revolution. Now I am not saying I am magic and can tell the future or in anyway stole my idea, as I could tell that this is probably going to do this. I am saying that I have the ability to think logically when creating game concepts and this is something that has influenced me into pursuing the gaming industry as a career path.