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"Just resting?"

Zhou Le naturally understood what Nazha meant by "resting all the time".

As the name suggests, it means staying indoors the whole time.

"Great, you've been resting well. I love resting the most. We'd better make sure to shoot this commercial well today."

"Absolutely. Honor of Kings pays a lot, and when we were discussing it beforehand, they told me I didn't need to do much. I just needed to be pretty. On the contrary, you had to show off more—how cool, domineering, and handsome you are, how tall and mighty you are, how powerful you are."

"Wait a minute, Mr. Muscle? Is there something weird mixed in? Isn't this toilet cleaner? Did you become their spokesperson?"

"No? I don't usually take on these kinds of jobs."

"If you're not going to accept the offer, why are you still advertising for him? You're kind-hearted."

"Look at what you're saying. Those chrysanthemums used to be just chrysanthemums, but you can't point at the chrysanthemums in the park and say that they're yours, can you?"

Zhou Le gasped, "When did you become so smart? Your mind works so fast?"

"Sigh, ever since we broke up, I've been abstaining from sex. I haven't touched a single meaty food since. Maybe that's why I feel like my brain isn't working properly after every time I see you."

Hearing these lewd words, Zhou Le glanced at the dashcam without showing any emotion: "Let's not leave this on, lest it record everything we say."

"Don't worry, I've checked everything. How could I make such a basic mistake?"

Although Nazha is quite laid-back and not particularly career-driven, and isn't afraid that these romantic rumors will affect her career, she also doesn't want it to become public knowledge, especially something like this.

Normally it's fine, if someone takes a picture of you behaving a little intimately in public, chatting and laughing, or even linking arms, it doesn't matter. But if this statement gets out, the gossip accounts will definitely be laughing so hard they won't be able to sleep.

They chatted all the way to the company, parked their car downstairs, and went upstairs for a meeting.

"Today we'll mainly talk about the shooting task, which will take about twenty minutes. In a moment, the two teachers will go try on the clothes to see if they fit. We have prepared several sets of different sizes."

Then comes the makeup. We'll go through the video script in a bit, and the two teachers can take a look and see if there are any problems or things that need to be changed. We'll then arrange for the scriptwriter to follow up immediately.

If everything goes well, we can head to the studio for the photoshoot after our makeup is done. It's expected to take eight hours to complete. There are three scenes in total: two outdoor and one indoor. The outdoor scenes are a bit further away; it might take over an hour to drive there.

Zhou Le nodded: "That's no problem, but does the eight hours you mentioned include travel time?"

"Yes, efficiency should probably be our priority. After all, our superiors are pushing us hard for this task, and you two teachers also have other work to do. So let's finish filming this today."

"Ok."

They then went over the script; the outdoor scene was on a grassland, and they needed to ride horses.

"By the way, can you two perform the horseback riding scenes independently? If you're not very good at it, we've prepared professional stunt doubles, and then we'll create the effect of horseback riding through the camera."

"No problem, it's just riding a horse."

Both of them have filmed horseback riding scenes before, so simply riding a horse at this moment is fine as long as they don't do anything too difficult. Moreover, even if they do do something difficult, as long as the safety measures are in place, it's not impossible to do it.

There are quite a few fight scenes in the remaining interior scenes, but according to them, they will break them down one by one and won't need to be filmed in one continuous shot.

In any case, various camera cuts, fast and slow motion, and special effects will be used to enhance the visual effects.

According to them, they planned to shoot on location first.

The outdoor scenes are relatively simpler; it's just two people in their respective costumes riding horses.

Finally, just create a scene where they're about to collide while suspended by wires.

So when they arrived at the scene, everything had already been set up and the choreography instructors were in place.

"Let's shoot the horseback riding scenes first, at least to warm up. Once we're warmed up enough, we can shoot the wire work later."

"No problem, Teacher Zhou, that's what we were planning to do too."

Upon hearing Zhou Le's words, the director on set subconsciously squeezed the script in his hand, but ultimately handed it to a staff member without even opening it.

Regardless of how he wrote the script, as long as the final result was roughly the same, they would still have to listen to Zhou Le.

This is the smart thing to do. Zhou Le is both an actor and a source of capital. Only a fool would try to forcefully suppress Zhou Le's ideas and give him a hard command in this kind of commercial advertisement.

Although a contract was signed for shooting the advertisement, the other party could easily say that the director was not good enough and directly tell the company to replace him.

This part of the scene was indeed quite easy to film. Having not ridden a horse for a long time, sitting on horseback again gave him a feeling of being a young knight-errant, especially since he was wearing the clothes of a great general. Zhou Le flicked the reins, and the horse immediately trotted off. At first, it was slow, but later the speed gradually increased, and Zhou Le galloped away.

The photographer, amused, quickly waved and said, "This way, Teacher Zhou, ride this way!"

Zhou Le then maneuvered his horse and rode over according to the pre-arranged route.

After the first lap, the photographer raised his hand again: "Teacher Zhou, we only need about three more takes!"

"it is good."

In this segment, Zhou Le has a few lines, reciting a line or two each time he passes the photographer.

"Alright, perfect. Next up is Teacher Nazha."

Gulnazar can also ride horses, although not as fiercely or fast as Zhou Le, but she can still ride normally without any problems.

So Naza also rode her horse around three or four times, mainly to make it easier to mix these clips together later.

After filming was finished here, Zhou Le and Nazha went to rest on the side, while the director went to look at the footage and was very satisfied with it.

"The two teachers are indeed very professional. We've finished filming this part. Now let's go back and film the interior scenes."

"it is good."

On the way back, the two of them rode in the same car as the director.

"Then the indoor shooting will be a bit more complicated. There will be a lot of combat actions, but as mentioned before, we can shoot it segment by segment. The specific storyboards have already been drawn. Then the two teachers may need to change to other skins."

Teacher Nazha has two sets: one is Midsummer Night's Dream and the other is Cat Shadow Illusion Dance. Teacher Zhou Le also has two sets: one is Heavenly Demon Chaos and the other is Doomsday Mech.

Zhou Le was a little confused.

"Her clothes make it easier for her to move around, but will I be able to move around in this doomsday mech?"

He was quite worried about this aspect, because when filming "The Wandering Earth," Li Guangjie couldn't move at all in that costume and had to hang up while filming. Because he was afraid to go to the toilet, he dared not eat or drink.

"It's okay, we've already thought about this part. We'll wear it when we make our debut, and then we'll use motion capture for the rest."

"Motion capture? That's alright, I've done that before."

Zhou Le did indeed do it. Back when Ning Hao was filming "Crazy Alien," Zhou Le played an alien.

On the way, they glanced at the script again. There were only a few lines, and they were all lines from game characters, so they were easy to remember.

While listening to the director, Zhou Le studied the storyboard.

"The overhead shot now shows the edge of a neon-lit rooftop, where a pair of feet in delicate high heels, adorned with flower petals, lightly touch the ground, and the camera quickly pans upwards."

Looking at this part, Zhou Le looked up at Nazha again. This should be Nazha's entrance. It has to be said that the game developers are quite good at this. They know what players like and what their sexual preferences are. They start by slapping feet, which is quite tasteful.

"Character/Action: Diao Chan, with exquisite makeup and a captivating yet cold gaze, stands with her back to the camera on the edge of a rooftop. The night wind blows through her dress and hair, and a meaningful smile plays on her lips."

Zhou Le understood.

Nazha then shared her thoughts: "This part should be a slow panning up followed by a freeze or a zoom-in shot, which can be considered my introduction."

In this section, there are sound effects following the script. The sound effects for this part are an ethereal yet slightly dangerous electronic Chinese music prelude, with the sound of howling wind in the background.

"Just looking at it this way, the visuals are quite good. Although the ancient style characters and modern neon lights are a bit of a departure, games are, after all, a fusion of various elements."

The cool fight scenes and the cyberpunk style should actually go well together.

Zhou Le commented, then looked at the director sitting in the passenger seat: "Director, on which channels will this promotional video be released? We'd like to help promote and share it."

"It will be on Weibo and Douyin, but I only filmed it. I heard they also want to integrate it into the game, that is, put this part on the update, and then embed it in a second or third level page so that players can see it at any time."

"That's definitely something they're taking very seriously."

"Yes."

Zhou Le nodded, then continued watching his own entrance scene.

Lu Bu's scene: The camera switches rapidly, and a huge shadow suddenly crashes down in the center of the rooftop, cracking the ground and sending debris flying. (Slow motion processing)

The character is clad in heavy armor, with his halberd pointing diagonally at the ground, radiating a violent energy aura of dark red or purple.

He slowly rose from his kneeling position, his eyes, glowing with special effects, fixed intently on Diao Chan not far away, exuding a sense of oppression and a complex possessiveness.

The sound effects are heavy metallic thuds and humming sounds. The background music has a heavier rhythm, and drum beats have been added.

"This does look pretty cool, but who invented the idea of ​​having to kneel on one knee after landing?"

Zhou Le suddenly had a question.

The question stunned everyone; they had never even considered it before.

"I think this is normal. With such a strong force, some of it has to be released, just like some parkour practitioners do a forward roll after landing."

For a true master, kneeling on one knee might be enough.

Zhou Le shook his head: "I don't think this counts as being a master. At most, this kind of entrance looks cool, but who invented this pose? It is indeed cool."

"Yes, but the one that comes to mind most is Iron Man, but Webster also does somersaults like that."

"Webster?"

Zhou Le paused for a moment, then opened his phone and searched online. He didn't find anything else, but he did find a coach who taught backflips.

"Oh, this one? This one does look pretty good."

Zhou Le felt that he could learn from it.

Then I looked at the script.

"A close-up of Diao Chan turning her head reveals a sharp look in her eyes. She twirls gracefully, and petals appear out of thin air and flutter around her."

"Lu Bu roared and swung his halberd fiercely. A huge crescent-shaped crimson beam with halberd special effects tore through the air and slashed straight at Diao Chan."

"Diao Chan's figure blurred instantly, and the flash skill effect appeared elegantly outside the slash trajectory. The afterimage in the original place was shattered into petals by the slash."

Then came Diao Chan's voice: "Can your blade keep up with my dance steps?"

Then came a series of flashy fights.

The script describes things in great detail, such as Diao Chan activating the magic circle and moving and spinning at high speed like a butterfly flitting among flowers, throwing out pink flower balls, and Lu Bu's huge demon god phantom appearing, leaping high and smashing into the center of the magic circle with earth-shattering force.

There was also a halberd that gathered unprecedented terrifying energy, but Diao Chan did not retreat but advanced, meeting him again amidst the falling petals, with a fearless yet poignant smile on her face.

"Seriously, I think you guys could write a novel with this. The descriptions are so detailed and vivid."

"Novels? Our screenwriter used to write online novels, mainly fantasy, so they are indeed quite good at it."

After they returned to the company, they started to put on makeup again and then changed into costumes.

The instructor then began demonstrating the movements to the two of them.

"These actions are mainly for demonstration purposes in the video. Afterwards, we will add a lot of special effects and create various backgrounds and effects on the green screen."

They are about to film an interior scene, which is also the most difficult one.

After this part is filmed, the last interior scene will be the two returning to the real world, sitting side by side on the sofa playing games on their phones.

Normally, the story should begin with a duel on the rooftop, followed by the intense battle where the background collapses and gradually transforms into a grassland. The two characters then take flight simultaneously, and the image freezes before the logo of Honor of Kings and the theme slogan of this promotional video appear.

"Is it love? Is it hate? Is it war!"

There's also a voiceover: "Lu Bu and Diao Chan's destined duel awaits your judgment in the King's Canyon."

Then the two of them played video games in the living room, which served as both an ending and an explanation. (End of Chapter)