Wow, it's like a thesis on Euphoria
Some of your more original effects, ones that are straight rips from Euphoria, are pretty interesting. I liked the static yet moving shapes from 1:07 to 1:14, however, the effects in the video didn't do much to enhance it; you made the effects the video. I've seen Beyond The Clouds, and I couldn't pick up a semblence of story from this video, just sparse and trite lyric sync. Euphoria may have had lots of effects and pretty transitions and such, but it was intended to enhance the preconceived emotion behind the video. I remember when it first came out, I discovered many of Euphoria's critics had not seen any of RahXephon, and do didn't understand the video as well (not to mention they didn't realize that not
every effect in the video was done by Koop).
Now, this may seem contradictory to my post
here, where I commended .:Decoy:. on making an effects video. The difference is that he had purpose behind all of the effects that he used, as did Koop.