It’s been a while since I’ve used this site with the front end of a blog! I’ve made some changes, through simply adding some updated content, I’ve been forced into changing some things around. If I find a better solution, I’ll revert back to what I had, but for the time being, here we are. Just to let you know, nothing that was here has gone, it may have moved a little. But you can still access all you should need via the menu at the top of every page. Portfolio now links through to my Corporate Portfolio, which has all my latest commercially released projects. Who I am still lets you know who the hell I am, and In Detail links through to those projects I feel deserve a little more space.

Featured projects is really just a list at the moment, so expect that to change sometime over the coming months. The Showreels section is now farley large and links through to some additional content added not so long ago, please feel free to have a browse and leave a comment or share with others if you so wish. Next up is the first of two new sections. The first, entitled ‘MCT Dvd’ is a section designed for those hunting for information on the long-running MCT DVD Project which has now finally concluded. This section contains status updates which are also copied to Facebook and Twitter, and is really here only for the time being, to give people some idea of where to look for information. Eventually that section will find itself wrapped up within the final new addition for the time being, the MCT Media section.

In this MCT Media section, you will soon be able to read about and view all of the videos produced by MCT Media during the 2010 Merseyside Community Theatre project. Some of these videos have been released elsewhere, but some of them have never been seen before, so hopefully there will be a surprise or two in there for some. Please enjoy having a look around, and as we start a new year, we have a new opportunity to present fresh new work to you all.

MCT short for Merseyside Community Theatre was a large-scale Community Outreach project co-ordinated by The Reader Organisation over a period of many months in 2010. The project was designed primarily to bring Shakespeare to the people of the Alt Valley, a deprived community in North Liverpool. Over the course of the project, the MCT Team engaged hundreds of local residents and others from all over Merseyside to get involved with the Community Theatre project as either Actors, Volunteers or behind the scenes helpers.

Currently in post-production, is a DVD featuring the full Romeo and Juliet performance as it happened over those four performances. We hope to have this DVD available by Christmas 2010. It will be provided for all Cast & Crew members free of charge. After that, if there is interest, further copies could possibly be made available. There is just myself working currently on this project, so progress will be made as and whenever possible, but I will always keep posting updates here and to my personal blog too.

Also in post-production right now is a full length documentary which tells the complete story of Merseyside Community Theatre, from the initial ideas and meetings right through Auditions and Rehearsals, to behind the scenes interviews and footage never seen before. There is no release date on this documentary film as yet, but again, I will keep you posted right here.

What started out as a simple case of recording the act of traveling from one place to another, has turned into a series of creative films. The first was shot by Brad Tarlton, which inspired the following which have been shot and edited by both Brad Tarlton and Kev Higgins. Each starts out with the intention of capturing the journey, sometimes featuring the mode of transport, sometimes not. The journeys take place all over the UK, the start or destination are not important in this series.

Two of these films have been released to YouTube by Brad Tarlton, two remain as yet unreleased, to see extracts, please visit the Media section above.

The four Journey of Distraction films are titled:

1. JoD: Summer Driving 2007 (Produced by Brad Tarlton)
2. JoD: Trying to find you (Produced by Brad Tarlton)
3. JoD: Wet Roads (Produced by Kev Higgins & Brad Tarlton)
4. JoD: The Final Drive of the Kringlebeast (Produced by Kev Higgins & Brad Tarlton)

Created by Kev Higgins