Blam -
I know it's a bit different, still playing with ideas.
http://postimage.org/gallery/acvu9ghm/08001709/ - see here for more, i saved a copy at each stage of tweakage.
I have ideas of how this could look ANIMATED [maybe each square as a flickering light, etc] but it's a lot of work for a rough concept. If you wanna go with something like this we can talk / tweak..
And something completely different - just because I'm really digging the idea of black and white -
Basically My idea is to begin [after the fox logo] with a brief prologue showing Shaw emerge from beneath the derelict [;)] and the some shots of her wandering around in despair - then we hear some of her final log - distorted which begins to fragment and morph into the signal Ripley listens to aboard the Nostromo - this sound then crossfades into the sound of applause and then suddenly we're looking at young Peter Weyland.
Towards the end of his [cut down] speech we are introduced to david - less some of the over the top "this is a commercial" style segments - Blending some of the footage of him aboard the ship alone with promo stuff, playing chess with himself - keep things a bit vague and don't show anything related to the mission - ie: learning the Engineers language [save that for later on]
Only when the ship approaches the planet do we realise - don't show any exterior shots until he opens up the viewscreen in orbit.
The problem here is that we probably need the Hangar briefing scene to explain what the hell is going on - but it might work sans old man Weyland [;)]
Extreme fast forward >>
the derelict falls to the surface and crushes Shaw. black out. Flashback to [cut down] isle of sky segment - "I think they want us to come find them" [or whatever]...then possibly cut back to Weyland talking about human achievement - "We are the GODS now" or some such.
the idea needs some refining and I'm not sure if the resources are available as cleanly as i'd like. And i'm not sure if the idea as a whole works as neatly in context.
I've got a few other 'out there' ideas, thinking back to speculation based solely on the first teaser trailer, but dunno if that stuff is viable. I might take a stroll through the supplimental materials again. - there's a lot of documentary footage on the BD set that looks as good as the actual film.
Now i need to watch your most recent stuff again to remember just what you've done already..
And maybe we should look more to the leviticus passages for editing ideas / inspiration. I didn't try anything visually with the 'LV426 - Leviticus 4:26' yet - it would be cool to fit that stuff in, either in plot or text.
EDIT - A little more that I forgot to post - [that i thought was interesting]
Acheron (LV-426) is one of three known moons orbiting theCalpamos, which is located in the Zeta II Reticuli system, 39 light years away from Earth. The moon is christened by human colonists as Acheron.
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Acheron_(LV-426)
AKHERON (or Acheron), the river of pain, was a stream and swampy lake of the underworld and its god. The daimon Kharon ferried the souls of the dead across its dark waters in a skiff.
http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/PotamosAkheron.html