Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

The arduous actor recruitment finally ended, and next came the scene construction. This didn’t cost much, as in modern filming, it’s common to use a green screen and act without props, then add special effects in post-production.

However, the special effects created by Shuangshuang using an Array could completely surpass modern computer-generated effects, perhaps only those holographic effects in the interstellar era could catch Shuangshuang’s eye.

Although scenes could use a green screen, acting without props required excellent acting skills; being immersed in the scene helped actors get into character more easily. Therefore, Shuangshuang decided to use less green screen and build more sets instead.

Compared to other production costs, building scenes was the least expensive for Shuangshuang.

One gold coin could build a house, and one purple gold coin was equivalent to one thousand gold coins. Although Shuangshuang didn’t have many purple gold coins, she still had about twenty after careful calculation.

These purple gold coins might seem few to Shuangshuang, but they were indeed a sizable fortune, enough to build many scenes.

The world had polarized prices: some things extremely cheap, others extremely expensive, with the truly costly items being cultivation resources.

As for the things ordinary people used, they were the cheapest, while items for cultivators were luxury items capable of bankrupting a well-off ordinary household.

For example, the things Shuangshuang bought for drawing Arrays. Just one Array Pen cost her seventy purple gold coins, and that was just the most basic one.

Moreover, the Memory Stone used by Shuangshuang was generally affordable only to cultivators. Ordinary people would only occasionally buy one for family memories if they were affluent.

This time, Shuangshuang directly used five purple gold coins, buying one entire Hundred Families Village and the vast area of surrounding land, including a few mountains, for filming purposes with one purple gold coin.

This whole piece of land was enormous. It was only because of its barren nature and sparse population, unsuitable for farming, that Shuangshuang could buy it all for the price of one purple gold coin.

With the remaining four purple gold coins, Shuangshuang used one to purchase materials for building houses, aiming to create a martial arts world. Many elaborate scenes needed to be constructed.

Such as the Sect of the male and female leads, the brothel they encountered, the Martial Arts Alliance event scenes, and Smoke Wave Lake, where the leads’ love was affirmed. These all needed to be built.

Wirework was also needed for filming. Although a Xuan Master could glide briefly, executing various movements simultaneously would be difficult. Making the movements graceful would be impossible.

Not to mention the leads, Ji Yuzhe and Jiang Wanling, and many supporting actors weren’t Xuan Masters. With wirework, they could perform many aerial actions.

To speed up scene construction, Shuangshuang offered three times the regular wages, attracting a large workforce. With more people and multiple sites working simultaneously, scene construction progressed quickly.

While the set was being constructed, Shuangshuang and her team began intensive acting training, which was the most difficult yet crucial aspect of ensuring a great movie.

The acting training alone consumed a full three months of Shuangshuang’s time, just enough to raise everyone’s performance to barely acceptable levels.

Zang Lin and Duan Xiaoxuan were the most surprising to Shuangshuang. After only three months of learning, their acting skills were already fully qualified.

While other actors were still at an idol level, these two could be considered real acting talents after just three months, showcasing their talent in acting.

Once acting skills were up to par, they proceeded with script read-throughs, etiquette teaching, martial arts guidance, and learning professional skills shown in the movie, such as playing musical instruments. Even if using a double, one must know how to play the instrument.

This time, Shuangshuang’s film was a comedic and humorous martial arts story, a traditional Huaxia martial arts world, where she taught traditional Huaxia etiquette.

Shooting a martial arts comedy for her first film, Shuangshuang deliberated for a long time. She loved martial arts novels and wanted to bring to this world the captivating martial arts adventures that once enchanted many people.

Her favorite Grandmaster-level martial arts author once wrote the phrase, ”The greatest hero does it for the country and the people,” encapsulating the spirit of martial arts: moral rectitude and guiding people towards goodness.

Martial arts are the dream of many. Who among young boys and girls hasn’t imagined themselves as a young hero or a dashing female knight, wielding a sword and upholding justice?

Even though traditional martial arts lost popularity, adaptations and transformations into immortal and fantasy genres still thrived, and martial arts themes never truly disappeared from people’s hearts.

Shuangshuang was sure that in this world of strong martial ethos, martial arts would only be more popular. Martial Arts would be replaced by Mystic Energy cultivation to better fit this world, adding a sense of realism.

In six months, Shuangshuang completed the scene construction she wanted, with buildings made from real materials and all styles designed by Shuangshuang herself.

Shuangshuang not only served as a part-time designer but also handled makeup, costumes, hairstyles, and jewelry design, busying herself like a whirlwind.

With the set completed, everyone officially entered the shooting phase. This time, Shuangshuang used nearly twenty Memory Stones for full-scale shooting, then selected the best footage for editing and production.

Before filming started, Shuangshuang made an Array that converted ten large Memory Stones, each a meter square, into something akin to a computer server. They could connect to all the smaller Memory Stones to watch the filming effects in real-time.

Standing on a large rock, Shuangshuang was now filming the scene where the male and female leads meet for the first time. The female lead sneaks out from home intending to explore the world and encounters a pickpocket; chaos ensues as she catches the thief.

In truth, with so many people cultivating in this world, Jiang Wanling, who hadn’t cultivated, playing a warrior was a big flaw. Unfortunately, Shuangshuang couldn’t find enough Xuan Masters to act, so she had to make do.

”Jiang Wanling, you first come out, fall, drop the sword, Ji Yuzhe helps her up, then a carriage comes, Ji Yuzhe holds Jiang Wanling, wirework pulls them up, fly in circles...”

Shuangshuang stood on a large rock, loudly directing Jiang Wanling and Ji Yuzhe. The extras responsible for creating chaos by setting up stalls were also putting effort into acting out the chaotic scene.

Everyone coordinated fully. Shuangshuang spent hundreds of Memory Stones on this film, striving to make every frame the best within her capabilities.

A film of one hour took Shuangshuang four full months to complete filming. The post-production editing was a task for Shuangshuang herself.

She laid out all the filmed Memory Stones in front of her, reviewing them one by one, noting down the scenes, and then began editing from the beginning, bit by bit.