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August 12, 2009 • janine drew, kilkenny, nancy drew, the hardy boys, The Hardy Lads, the janine drew agency, v.p.i., vultures, webcom

Meet The Hardy Lads

Shane and Nicky Hardy (Peter O’Connor and Geoff Warner Clayton)

A character profile for these two young scamps just went online over on the Vultures website.

Introduced in Episode 5 ‘The Adventure Of The Hidden Microfilm’, the Hardy’s are two young scamps caught keying cars by Janine. Janine evidently saw something in them as she’s recruited them to help her out with her own detective business, The Janine Drew Agency. You can find out more about these thick yet enthusiastic teens here. And you can watch The Janine Drew Agency in action here.

The boys are obviously based on teen detectives The Hardy Boys, much in the same way that Janine is partly based on Nancy Drew. We thought a modern Irish, slightly stupid and chav friendly version of the characters might be a nice twist. Spot the difference:

And yeah, there’s a bit of Scooby Doo in there as well. It’s a good look though.

There’ll be a lot more from this lot in the upcoming Vultures ‘Attack Of The Pinkertons‘.

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July 30, 2009 • chav, irish sitcom, janine drew, kilkenny, pinkertons, the janine drew agency, vultures, webcom

The Janine Drew Agency

We’ve started the promotional push for the upcoming sixth installment of Vultures ‘Attack Of The Pinkertons’.

And the first thing we’ve launched is a website and promo advert for everyone’s favourite teen chav detective, Janine Drew. Janine has decided to branch out and using all the smarts and business acumen she’s attained during her Transition Year run, she’s set up her own business. It’s an after school detectve project entitled The Janine Drew Agency. And she’s even got her own website www.JanineDrewAgency.com

She’s joined by Shane and Nicky Hardy, two wayward young dopes who she’s coralled into helping her. These lads have fliers and everything. It’s pretty obvious who these three teen detectives are based on but hey, half the fun is in the inspiration.

Of course with three rival detective agencies operating in the land of Vultures, there’s no doubt that all tensions will come to a head in Episode 6. The Janine Drew Agency are also relevant to another little subplot we’ve got going so do keep tuned to see where it all leads.

On the website you’ll find Janine’s promo videos and find her blog. Which should no doubt be a source of constant flashing fonts and sparkling icons.

‘Attack Of The Pinkertons’ is coming soon, real soon… Watch your backs.

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March 3, 2009 • janine drew, v.p.i. irish sitcom, vultures

The Making Of A Chav Detective

The development section on the Vultures website is one that we haven’t found time to give much love to. What with all the pre-production and production and post production. So the process of archiving and putting all our little background details up there for all to see has fallen behind.

Now as we’re winding down the shoot, myself and Paddy have found time to get some of that stuff up there. The idea of the development section is to throw a little light on how our ultra low budget web comedy was conceived and how we, eh… developed it I guess. It might be of some interest to some folks as a background to the show but mostly, mostly, it allows us talk all kinds of shite and drop name on all our reference points.

First up is an article on how the character of Janine Drew came about and how we finally achieved the dream of a character in pink velour and boots ‘with the fur’.

The article can be found in the Development section right here. Just do a bit of scrolling down first. It’s still a work in progress.

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December 8, 2008 • episode 4, janine drew, vultures kilkenny v.p.i. irish sitcom

‘The Case Of The Poisoned Dates’ wraps up

We wrapped shooting yesterday on the latest installment of our comic web serial Vultures. A cold, frosty but charmingly sunny Sunday morning saw our final scene for Episode 4 wrapped. Last night also saw us do some secretive shooting for Episode 6 and with that, shooting on Vultures for 2008 concludes. No rest for the wicked though. Not a hope.

We’ll be spending the rest of the year getting ‘The Case Of The Poisoned Dates’ ready for a January online bow and we’ll also be getting ourselves geared up for shooting Episodes 5 & 6 in January, when we have nothing better to do but stand around outside in the cold with cameras. More information on those 2 episodes will be following along soon.

‘The Case Of The Poisoned Dates’ has been abbreviated as thus:

“The fourth episode of our escapades will see the arrival in the V.P.I. offices of a TY student on work experience. Her name is Janine Drew and she is brash, ambitious and what in social circles is known as a ‘chav.’ Her appointment coincides with a series of errant romantic entanglements that degenerate into a potential powderkeg of social embarrassment and extreme violence.”

The shoot for Episode 4 was a blast, partially due to a well spaced schedule and enthusiastic cast. But mostly down to having Ross Costigan working as director on this one. Ross is well familiar with Vultures at this stage so he knew the whole concept inside out and having sat around for so long and watched years of plays and films being filmed, he was chomping at the bit to get behind the camera and shout at us. After a couple of early hiccups on the shoot (namely freezing, ice rain) it picked up the pace and we’ve ended up with the best Vultures material so far. For me, it was great to be able to focus on work in front of the camera with Ross there manning the decks. He brought a fantastic commitment, focus and professionalism to the shoot and for the first time I felt as if I had someone on set who I could work with to push the boundaries of how the show looked and he brought out the best in everyone on set. Alan really upped his game as well and it’s resulted in a really lovely looking episode which I have to give the lads all props for. The visual aspect of Vultures has suffered tremendously in the first 3 episodes due to not having the required crew to really achieve what we needed but with Ross full time behind the camera with Alan, the two of them really brought it to a level where it looks, yes, like a sitcom!

So, the editing process is kicking off this week and I really can’t wait to get tuck into it in the knowledge that we’ve got coverage… lots of coverage. The shoot for 4 has me revved up for the shoot for Episodes 5 & 6, it’s going to be hard, no doubt about that, but myself and Ross have a good handle on how to shoot it and Alan will take care of the production side of it. Scripting is near completed on both episodes (more of which later) so things are looking good on the entire Vultures wrap front.

Once there’s a date set for it (no pun intended) then it’ll be announced with mild fanfare and the crippling pressure of impending deadlines. It’s how we work best, see. High blood pressure here we come!

www.VulturesPI.com is newly updated so check it out. All the photos on it (and here) are taken by the aforementioned Costigan ladchap and more of his work is available for visual perusal at his website www.Oss237.com

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November 26, 2008 • bling, chav, janine drew, vultures kilkenny v.p.i. irish sitcom, work experience

Meet Janine Drew

The promotion for Vultures Episode 4 ‘The Case Of The Poisoned Dates’ is kicking into gear and here’s the first new character to take a bow. Plus she’s got an introductory trailer to boot. Please meet:

JANINE DREW (SUZANNE O’BRIEN)

Straight from www.VulturesPI.com is the lowdown:

‘As our latest installment ‘The Case Of The Poisoned Dates’ looms into view, we’d like you to become acquainted with the newest member of the V.P.I. workforce, 16 year old Transition Year student Janine Drew. An ambitious young go getter she certainly is. Not to mention that she is what is known in cultural circles as ‘a chav.’ She will be doing her 2 weeks work experience in the cluttered offices of Vulture Private Investigations and no doubt, she will get up to all manner of merriment.’

You can check out her profile page at the Episode 4 section of the Vultures website.

And here’s her trailer:

Chavtastic!

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