Behind the scenes: Shoot Communications at Portview
From major television productions to festivals and live events, Portview-based Shoot Communications supplies the communications infrastructure that helps complex productions run.
Some of the work carried out at Portview is highly visible. Some of it is designed to work almost unnoticed behind the scenes.
Shoot Communications, based in Block B at Portview, specialises in the technical infrastructure around film and television sets, including WiFi, radio systems and mobile devices. It also supports festivals and major events.
Its portfolio includes work with productions and organisations such as Game of Thrones, Derry Girls, Line of Duty, The Fall, Culture Night Belfast and Stendhal Festival of Art, alongside a wide range of other screen and live-event projects.
For a large production, reliable communications are critical. Teams can be spread across sets, locations and departments, often working to tight schedules where information needs to move quickly. Shoot’s role is to plan and provide the communications systems that help those teams stay connected.
The company is a good example of the specialist businesses that make up the Portview community. Its work sits at the intersection of technology, screen production and events — sectors that have become increasingly important to Northern Ireland’s creative economy.
It also illustrates a wider point about Portview: businesses based within the former mill are contributing to projects and productions that audiences may know nationally and internationally, even if they never see the Portview name on screen.
