Chapter 284: Jing Tian's Lena

The movie Heroic Legion features many scenes—academies, classrooms, forests, cities, oceans—so it needs both special-effects shooting in the studio and simple set shooting.

For example, the classroom scenes.

Considering everyone just joined the crew and hasn't fully gotten into shape, the shooting process naturally starts easy then hard, beginning with the simplest classroom scenes.

The first scene is Jing Tian playing Lena scolding Liu Chuang in the classroom, giving the impression of—arrogant, very arrogant.

After all, in the film Lena's role is the Goddess of Dawn, not a mortal.

But filming it is still difficult.

Because she has to choke Ding Haifeng's Liu Chuang by the neck against the wall, needing to convey that force.

Fortunately Jing Tian's height is adequate; if she were shorter, we'd have to redesign this scene.

Of course, another option is to use a stunt double and make slight adjustments in post-production, which wouldn't be so easily noticed.

Jiang Heng's idea is to still try to shoot it for real first and see the effect.

After all groups and actors were in place and ready, Jiang Heng shouted, and the crew officially started shooting.

In a large classroom, a dozen or so people sat scattered, all gazing at the news on the big projection screen, which reported that an unknown armed force descended from the sky and seized a crocodile‑shaped humanoid creature, with civilians injured in the process.

The actors in the classroom had to look very surprised and discuss it, thereby sparking a conflict.

In this scene, the early opposing actors were Ke La La playing the policewoman Qilin, Hu Huo playing Ge Xiao Lun, and Ding Haifeng playing Liu Chuang, who had a verbal spat.

Hu Huo's acting was naturally fine; he easily finished his part.

Ke La La's policewoman Qilin had the right tone and demeanor, but her non‑standard accent made it a bit hard to take seriously.

Surely it will need redubbing later; for now we just have to put up with it—at least it's better than "Mr. and Ms. Number".

Then, Lena, who had been sitting in the classroom corner wearing a long black coat, a waist‑cinching belt, showing her clean white legs, and big leather boots, made her entrance.

But see her step forward slowly, reach out and grab Ding Haifeng's neck, then she burst out laughing, squatting on the floor unable to stop.

Seeing this, the others all burst out laughing.

Jiang Heng looked helpless and shouted, "Jing Tian, what's going on?"

"Director, his neck is all sweaty—I can't grab it!"

Ding Haifeng heard this, his expression embarrassed: "Director, it's too hot in here!"

Wu Jing, who was about to appear, laughed beside him: "Master, could it be you've had too many spring dreams and weakened your body?"

Ding Haifeng grew more embarrassed: "With so many girls around, what are you saying!"

Wu Jing gave an embarrassed smile and said, "Sorry."

Jiang Heng could only call for a crew member to bring a fan to cool things down.

But during actual shooting, Jing Tian's side still had problems—for example, Ding Haifeng's neck was too thick, he was too tall, etc.

Just the single shot of choking someone's neck against the wall took a little while to film.

They also filmed two meeting‑room scenes, and the first day passed.

Most people were a bit tired, but Jing Tian seemed excited, saying she hadn't done well on the first day and was willing to treat everyone to a meal to make up for it.

With good food, everyone naturally perked up.

Together they took a car to a nearby decent‑rated restaurant, ordered a large private room, and a dozen or so people sat inside.

Jiang Heng naturally took the seat of honor, with Liu Yifei on one side and the hostess Jing Tian on the other.

"I didn't do very well today, making everyone keep redoing scenes with me—I'd like to apologize first!" Jing Tian stood up and raised her glass.

Everyone hurriedly said, "Hey, filming's like that—this kind of thing is totally normal!"

Ding Haifeng gave an embarrassed laugh, "I was also sweating buckets from running around!" Everyone laughed again.

They then chatted about various topics concerning the film, and Jing Tian curiously asked, "Brother, what's the name of this film's original game?"

"Heroes League!"

"Heroes League?" Jing Tian's eyes lit up, "It should be really fun—when can it come out?"

Everyone hearing that also looked curious.

After all, after the new film's launch event, too many people became curious about the related game.

In the entertainment industry, quite a few stars enjoy playing games.

Jiang Heng's company's game—whether you like it or not—you'll definitely play a couple rounds, at least giving us more topics to awkwardly chat about!

"Probably the New Year's slot!"

Actually the game is pretty much ready now and can go into open beta at any time.

We're just considering that the online version of Slay Immortal was just released in early August, so we're spacing things out a bit.

Jing Tian giggled, "Brother, you're talking about the game's open‑beta schedule as if it were a release window!"

The other few girls at the table also had smirking expressions.

Jiang Heng gave an embarrassed smile and said, "We really have gotten used to it!"

Huang Xiaoming said, "This shows Director Jiang's focus is entirely on the film. The game side just gets a little attention—Slay Immortal is already the top domestic title of its kind, and I believe Heroes League will also become a nationwide hit!"

Hu Huo then asked, "What's the gameplay roughly like?"

Jiang Heng briefly said it's similar to Magic Beast 3C.

Hu Huo's eyes lit up, "That's great—I love playing this, though I've gotten a bit tired of it and don't know what to play now!"

Yang Mi chimed in, "When that Heroes League goes into open beta, let's team up and play together!"

She's also a gaming fan, often playing games during breaks from filming, and sometimes even after finishing a day's shoot late at night she'll go to an internet cafe to play to her heart's content.

Also Zhao Liying and Zhou Jielun, the latter being famous for loving Heroes League.

Of course, at this moment we don't know what the future holds; we're just politely saying we'll support Director Jiang's company's game.

Jiang Heng just smiled and said, "Sure, later I'll arrange a place for us to team up and play!"

Yang Mi hearing this, her eyes instantly brightened.

She felt her biggest problem was being busy filming, having little contact and few topics with Jiang Heng, so she got few resources, thus she could only desperately take on more work, a vicious cycle.

If she could team up with Jiang Heng to play games, their relationship would become closer, and she would surely be taken care of!

"Great, great, I'll sign up, I'll sign up!"

One could say that everyone present, except for someone like Ding Haifeng who is somewhat older, all expressed wanting to team up with Jiang Heng to play games.

Yang Mi also suggested filming the crowd's gaming scene as a video, to use as a game promotional clip.

Jiang Heng laughed and said: "Your idea is quite ahead of its time!"

"Really?" Yang Mi exclaimed delightedly.

Jiang Heng nodded slightly, thinking to himself: "If I say a couple more words, I might end up doing game livestreams and commentary!"

However, his thoughts were still mostly on movies.

In the gaming sector, launching League of Legends first is already the biggest victory.

Because this game is indeed valuable, in my previous life, League of Legends brought in $1.5 billion in revenue in 2019, and by 2020 it had grown to $1.75 billion, which can only be described as obscene profit!

(End of chapter)