borjamoya

During the pandemic when everyone was working remotely, I heard countless stories of terrible bosses who were exploiting their employees. That inspired me to make Resignation Letter.

Resignation Letter is a psychological horror short film about a burned-out employee who is trying to cope with her abusive boss, while trying to find the courage to quit her job. Things begin to get complicated when her boss threatens her own survival.

It's a little over 6 minutes, but it took me over 6 months to get this done. I have written, directed, and produced this film by myself, operating behind the camera while directing, as well as editing the project, from its visual effects to its sound effects.

While this project may seem like a moderate-budget short film with a crew, I shot in every location through favors from friends and family, investing only in minimal film gear, building custom dolly tracks and other gadgets, and doing the manual and creative labor myself.

Making movies is probably the hardest thing I've ever done, but it has one of the biggest emotional rewards I've ever experienced.

This is my first real short film, but it won't be the last one.

Hope you enjoy it!

There are so many things like the noise reduction tool in the color page.

Yes, absolutely. It's more than enough for most people. The paid version is to unlock features that you'd want to use in higher productions.

I've been using Davinci Resolve for almost three years and I can't emphasize enough how great this product is.

IMO, it's miles away from Adobe Premiere. Not only because of its color grading capabilities, but I just find it way more intuitive than Premiere.

And let's not forget that you also get Fusion, which is incredibly more powerful than Adobe After Effects.

You can basically do all the post-production work in one single tool. Even though Fairlight (the built-in DAW) isn't as powerful as Pro Tools, you can get most of the audio work done within Davinci Resolve.

It's just crazy to think that you can get this much for $300. Or in my case, for free when buying a Blackmagic camera.

Thank you!

For those of you asking in the email, I'm working on two genres: (1) Crime/horror. It's basically it's a scene from a feature script I'm writing. The feature is a crime / thriller film, but this specific scene I'm turning into a short leans more towards the horror genre. And (2) Heist film. I'll produce this one after this first one. It's a bit more ambitious so if anyone wants to collaborate on this one it'd be great to start working as soon as possible.

Also if anyone wants to collaborate on the production process on set, I'll be filming these in Madrid, Spain.

Not really!

Probably not the place to post this, but I'm directing and producing a couple of short films and it'd be great to find people who want to help in any aspect of the post-production process: musicians, designers, VFX/3D artists...

If anyone is interested in knowing more about this, please reach me out to [email protected]