Compilation of videos

For the final piece I will make a video about the contrast between the evil and good in people. I will collect clips from the videos below and edit them on Final Cut Pro. I'll add music and effects, and maybe some original footage by me.
These are the videos I want to use:

It's scary how much there is to find if you type in "kitten set on fire" in Youtube. And this is just the news reels, I didn't go anywhere near the videos of the abuse happening.

Sad Music To Go With A Sad Video

I'm currently looking for music to play over the video I will make around the theme of animal abuse. I'm waiting to edit the footage I've collected because I want to fit it to the tempo of the music.

This one's nice and sad but it's a bit too fast for what I want to do.

Think I like this one better for the slow start. Although I'm starting to think I want something less emotional.

Spent ages trawling through acoustic guitar songs, haven't found anything with the right feel to it. Could use The Price We Pay, but I wanted the song to be instrumental.

This one could work:

I'm leaning towards the second piano song at the moment. I might try out a couple of songs and see what works best.

Animal Abuse and Voyeurism

A really horrible news story has inspired me to decide on a concept for my final piece in the Digital Voyeurism project.
There is something called "crush fetishism", where people get off on watching animal abuse. A couple in America made at least 27 videos for clients who requested certain types of abuse on particular animals before being detected by the police and charged. I felt sick when I read this news article, honestly wanted to cry, and I wanted to find these people and make them suffer in the same way the poor animals had to. I honestly cannot believe that there are people who want to watch, not even out of a morbid sense of curiosity but for sexual pleasure, animals including cats and kittens, dogs and puppies, being tortured and brutally killed. It makes me despair at the potential for cruelty in people. And when you look at the mugshots of the people who committed these vile crimes, they look normal.

You wouldn't suspect them of being so evil if they were your neighbours and that worries me even more because they got away with it for far too long, and there are undoubtably still people out there hurting animals to cater for people's sick voyeuristic tendencies. And that doesn't even cover the teenagers who torture animals for fun then post it on youtube, or the boys who set a puppy on fire, or the girls who set a kitten on fire for the hell of it. It's shocking that people want to watch these things happening. According to the news article I read, the girls were heard laughing as the kitten burned and screamed. Thankfully both the puppy and kitten were rescued and are being nursed back to health.

I want to create an installation in which people are exposed to horrific stories like this and feel compelled to be more pro-active in protecting animals' rights. It will be interactive with the viewers able to rifle through photos and scroll through webpages related to animal cruelty. I'll have both horror stories like the one above and success stories about the animals who have been rescued so that people will see they can make a difference. I think the reason a lot of animal abuse goes undetected and unreported is because people assume it isn't their place to intervene or they don't understand the damage actually being done. I hope the installation would also discourage people from mistreating or neglecting their own pets because some people might just not realise that ignoring your dog or not cleaning out your rabbits is mistreatment of an animal.
I don't like to finish on a downer though, so here's a video of a couple of people helping out some bear cubs :)

All these stories in this post were found on this Facebook page.