Episode 3 with Vicki Fox

17 Feb

Podcast on the Porch with Vicki Fox. Excuse the comedy bleeps in the Intro but the podcast contains classified information!! Click to watch on YouTube and please like & subscribe!

Vicki is a chainsaw wielding Military Wife and former DJ with an Agroforestry farm in Aberdeen, who now works in TV & Film as a Location Assistant. Phew, that’s a mouthful isn’t it?! She has the most amazing personality, contagious energy and high levels of self-motivation, which makes her my kinda Woman! We met at our house in March 2023, when she was part of an TV crew, here to film some some scenes for season 2 of a top secret drama, not released at time of publication. She breezed onto location with an air of “let’s get shit done” but with the biggest, friendliest and approachable smile on her face. Needless to say we hit it off!

In this episode, Vicki tells me all about her journey from DJing in Inverness & Aberdeen to her current, and extremely rewarding, life in the South of England working in TV & Film, and describes her route into the Locations Dept, where she eventually found her place and her people. The conversation even turned to Strippers, and I don’’t mean paint strippers!! Vicki’s also a Mother by the way, and we didn’t even get a chance to talk about that, and what a cool Mum to have! Here’s some photos below and, at the bottom, some handy links for you, if you’d like to follow Vicki’s footsteps into the Industry, no matter your sex or your age because, as she highlights in the Podcast, there’s something for EVERYONE on set and behind the scenes. She really is an inspiration!

Early Days as a DJ at MFR

*Up close & Personal with some kilted Scotsmen!*

DJ Vixi!

Farm Life

*Vicki’s Agrofestry Farm in Aberdeen. It’s rather big!*

*Literally “shovelling shit” at her farm!*

*Planting her first trees, in the rain, at her Agroforestry Farm in Aberdeen*

On Location with her Chainsaw!

*Vicki puts her Chainsaw skills to work at her Farm and on Set*

Vicky the Tree Expert

*I picked her brain about mine while she was here!*

Vicki's Instagram

Podcast Instagram

Bungalow Insta

Handy Film & TV Contacts

And here’s a few of the organisations you might like to contact if you’re keen to dip your toe into the Film & TV Industry. Some offer courses too, just click through to explore…