This is an approximation of the shot. In the real thing, trees and bushes may get in the way of the shot being structured exactly as we want (as might passers by), but we'll simply have to work around that when we get there.
The most basic idea would be just putting the title between the two characters with no extra animation. And, as before, the extended "I" would serve as a marker for how the title has a dual meaning.
Another idea was that the title could appear and then the "I" would extend past the parallel framing until it reached the ground. This would imply the fact that the two girls are from parallel universes, and also create a pleasing aesthetic split in the image. It would also follow our idea of using mirrors as much as possible in our filming in order to highlight the otherworldly origins of girl A. However, not only would this be difficult to do, but the line would also be skewed to the left, and would therefore not look particularly good due to the lack of symmetry.
This idea would be graphically challenging but remains arguably be the most effective one in our arsenal. In this, the letters fade out as they walk past them just as in previous renderings of our title.
However, in this case, the '(I)' remains and, as the two come closer together, the brackets circle each other and turn into an eye. The eye fades out as they cross each others paths and carry on.
Granted, the eye looks almost like the Eye of Sauron from the "Lord of the Rings" films, not to mention that we'd have to use the font from "Alien" for this idea to work. The danger of frustrating our viewer aside, however, this idea fits perfectly with the feeling of paranoia and being watched that we want to create in our film.
There, of course, cannot be a final decision until we actually complete this shot and can play around with it in editing. Not to mention, it would be nice to ask a couple people their opinions of these ideas anyway, in order to see if they think the fonts fully convey the double meaning of the title, as well as seeing whether people recognise the "Alien" font.
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