On Monday I was in this position- watching my long documentary while showing it to someone who might do our commentary voice. The documentary has been more or less ready since last November, just awaiting the final sign off while the producers quibble over each comma.
Anyway, the point was watching your own work after a while puts you in a unique position of both 'owning' it as the creator and yet somehow developing a distance from it- seeing it almost from a distance. Strange emotions, the usual rush of excitement over your work being seen and appreciated has lessened, and yet its a work that's not been seen publicly, so you do await the response to it eagerly.
Hopefully it will all be over and I'll be able to point to the work and say this is it- love it, hate it, ignore it- whatever.
This is merely to document my emotions now, not what they will finally be about the documentary.
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