A Distância entre Nós: uma série de reportagens sobre a jornada da desigualdade na capital potiguar

Abstract

This course completion work had the objective of creating a series of reports - The Distance between Us: A journey about inequality in the Potiguar capital. According to data from the 9th Boletim Desigualdade nas Metrópoles (9th Inequality in Metropolises Bulletin), Greater Natal is among the three cities with the greatest income inequality between the richest and poorest, and this can be observed by walking through the streets of the city. Facing this scenario, this course completion work creates an audiovisual production that represents people who go unnoticed by society. They are different people, with different realities, but who are in the same situation regarding the fundamental rights being violated and being victims of social inequality. Based on the analysis of the importance of communication, especially in the context of having a coercive power in spreading information and enabling marginalized people to be seen by government agencies through the work of journalism, this work was built through interviews and a bibliographic research based on the theories regarding social inequality by Adorno (2002) and reporting techniques based on the theories of Carvalho, Diamante, Bruniera, Utsch (2010). In the series of reports were heard researchers, people in social vulnerability, public managers, people living on the streets, people living in squatter settlements and representatives of social movements that deal with the obstacles of social inequality. Thus, a patchwork of reports and images was sewn into the three episodes.