This paper discusses a proposed term project for a course in documentary photography that centered on photographically documenting a rural community and measuring its symbolic sociodramas. The paper describes the focus of the project, which was to determine how various community groups interpreted a given set of photographs designed to express a dimension of life in the community. It also explains the coorientation model and multidimensional scaling (MDS) approach chosen to analyze the set of documentary photographs and to compare responses from various citizens' groups. MDS is defined, and the procedure for implementing the proposed project is summarized. (AE)