Reification

The digital document/mini-movie, involved too much work from my part. It involved hard work and too much thinking in order to convey my idea across to my specific audience. I had to first decide what my learning was, and the different levels of obstacles I encounter when learning that new thing. After I knew what I wanted to talk about, then came the big question, "how do I put all my ideas together in a way that it's interesting and makes sense to my audience."
I made my movie on learnig how to make better choices when it comes to eating healthy. For this reason, I thought that I would definetely need pictures of me showing why I want to loose weight (because I am fat and scared for my own health), the things I did wrong when it came to eating habits (eating fast food and junk food), and the things I had to learned in order to accomplish my goal (eating more veggies, fruits, drinking lots of water, reading food labels, stop eating junk food). I also thought about a song that would demonstrate the way I feel about doing this change in my life, and I think I found just the right song: "Rocky Balboa's theme song." Every time I hear that song, it makes me thing of not giving up. It's a song that I relate with courage and willpower. That's what I had to go through when learning how to eat better.
First, I went to McDonalds and bought a hamburger that I didn't even eat (it was so hard), to show a video of me throwing the junk food in the trash can, getting rid of it. With this I wanted to demonstrate that in the past, even though I wanted to loose weight, I always fail to eat healthy and went back to eating junk food. I also went to a grocery store and had my husband take pictures and video of me shopping the right way, making sure that my cart included lots of veggies and fruits. My husband was a great support in the making of this movie and in the learing of eating right as well. He has changed his eating habits just to give me moral support. Once I had all the images and video that I needed, I proceeded on arranging then on chronological order. After I had all the images in the order I wanted, I began to write my narrative that would go along with it. That was a much easier process because I just explained them. Of corse, I had to make sure that it made sense and that it had transitions like in an essay. One thing I struggled with, was the music. Eventhough I knew what kind of music I wanted I didn't know how to have music and narrative at the same time. To make things easier for me, I played the song while I recorded my narrative, and that solved my problem.
At the end, I can say that I feel pretty good about the final product of this mini-movie. I just hope that the movie will demonstrate what I wanted to convey. I also hope that it demosntrates all the effort I put in the making of this movie.