Reification of my digital document

I am happy to be asked to explain or describe the "humanity" aspect of the reification process of my digital document. The "commodity" or actual product is pretty obvious, but being able to explain the "humanity" aspect makes me, as a student, feel good (like that you actually want to know what we put into it, concerning effort, time, thoughts, challenges, etc.).
Regarding "labor" aspects, I probably worked at least seven hours total on my digital document. I started my project off by, besides picking one topic that I stuck with, writing out my narrative to help create my vision of my document as a movie. After I completed my narrative, I started some filming (with the help of my technology-savy sister), which we did over a two day span (due to lack of digital camera battery). After loading the film and pictures onto my computer, I found some pictures and images from the internet to also use in my document. The portion of this assignment that required most of my time and labor efforts was actually working in Windows Movie Maker. I was not familiar with the program, let alone did I know it existed on my computer. Although I am now glad I know how to create basic movies on the program, I was not too happy at the time, because I was more frustrated at the fact that I had to create a "movie" for a writing composition course (which I now fully and completely understand and agree with, learning more of the assignment's objective in relation to elementary classrooms and students' learning).
Regarding thinking aspects, it did take me awhile to actually figure out "what" I was "learning." I never really thought that I am constantly learning something in life. I always was under the notion that learning was more of a physical thing that was then internalized, and I did not think that learning could be something as simple as "learning how to create personal time for yourself," which is basically what my digital document is about. I used or applied a few of Gee's ideas and concepts, although they aren't exactly and directly mentioned in my document. I believe I mainly focused on Gee's idea of learning something and being able to apply it to different situations, such as learning yoga and breathing techniques and being able to apply them to when I am placed in a stressful situation, etc. Also, I believe I applied Gee's achievement principle, where I as a person gain intrinsic rewards, or stress-free/relaxation time, from the beginning of my practices.
After I actually created a final project or draft of my document, I did feel proud. Proud that I learned a new computer program; proud that I accomplished ayet another assignment written in my planner; proud that I understood the objective of this assignment and believed that I had reached it. Although I was complainig earlier (sorry!) about the point of this project if I was in a composition class, I am extremely glad that this document was assigned. I do realize how important multi-modal learning is and how much of a potential it has when concerning student learning in the classroom, and from doing a multi-modal assignemnt myself, I see how one could learn from it all, especially when considering the many types of learning styles children possess.
I am sure I will have more to say about this assignment later becauase I'm not all that great at writing something under pressure or right after I've been told, just because I don't have each comment or concern regarding the assignment in my thoughts at the moment. I'll blog more later if I can think of more, otherwise, that's pretty much the reification process of my digital document.