St. Patrick’s Day parade article

This article was created for the online magazine. I went out with photographer Chloe and I assisted her in what I wanted images of and I made notes on the parade itself, e.g. the walking groups and floats there. I conducted an interview with an Irish woman in the crowd who was going to watch her granddaughter waving a flag in the parade to give my article a human angle, and to make it more personal and interesting.

 Here are some of the (unedited) images Chloe took. These are not the images I ended up using in the article itself but I thought I would present some here to give a taster of the parade day and emphasise the importance of multiculturalism!

For this article, I researched into St. Patrick’s Day on the internet and read past articles on previous St. Patrick’s Day parades in Digbeth (as it is a successful yearly event). This research was useful as it helped aid me in writing my article.

ON THE DAY:

We got the train to town and walked to Digbeth before the parade even began to ensure we got a good position, which we did. We saw all of the walking groups and bands etc before they began walking in the parade, so we managed get some posed images as well as some of the parade itself. By getting there early we managed to establish our position, and we had plenty of time to get lots of photographs and lots of information necessary for my article- overall, it was a successful day.