Debaixo do sol - crônicas de vidas comuns

Abstract

The present work is the technical report of the experimental project “Under the Sun: Chronicles of Ordinary Lives” carried out as a conclusion work for the journalism course at the Federal University of Alagoas. The purpose of this report is to share the technical background and details of the journalistic production of this experimental product: elaboration of the agenda, choice of characters, writing and editing process, dilemmas and difficulties encountered in the process, as well as lessons learned during the execution of the project. The theoretical foundation that gave rise to the construction of the chronicles went through the understanding of the evolution of the textual genre, from its etymology to the transformations that conferred peculiar characteristics on the chronicle in the Brazilian press. Our main reference was the notes of Jose Marques de Melo, who points out the journalistic chronicle as a genre that is situated between news and report and article and commentary. The result of the work is an e-book with 12 journalistic chronicles that bring the story of 11 common characters: missionary, photographer, bus conductor, teacher, case worker, bank officer, doula, poet, homeless person, public servant, journalist. Voices that rarely appear in the mainstream media as protagonists, but deserve to have their stories told.