This article brings the problems discussed in the research, which aim at the creation of an audiovisual map of the subjective configurations that are taking place in the rural communities of Massaroca - a district of the city of Juazeiro, Bahia - and produce a documentary with this material. Bibliographic and cinematographic studies mainly about the Brazilian documentaries have been done in order to acquire conceptual and practical tools related to the audiovisual language. This study and the filming works and edition analyzed the documentary production method in three main points: the subjective processes in the cinematographic production; the film as reality or fiction; the documentary as another methodological perspective.
subjective processes; rural communities; audiovisual language; reality-fiction