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Whilst my project is still in the development stage, I am investigating different mediums of storytelling. I was initially considering including shots from CCTV cameras in Japan to depict what I was missing out on, and then thought to narrow it down to CCTV cameras around my house in Osaka. 

I have been able to locate a “live camera” (as they are called in Japanese) that is situated on a building that points to a small park I passed through twice a day to get to my local train station. However the view is not very clear, and is mostly of power lines. 

I did find this website where you can watch live streams from around the world, and I was able to refine the results down to Osaka, but not further to Suita (what you would refer to as my local council.) The interesting thing with this site is that the camera feeds are different every time you visit, and even if you re-visit the link of a CCTV camera you had previously seen, it does not re-appear the next day. Each time you view the stream, it is a unique, fleeting moment that cannot be repeated.

I spent (too much) time watching some of the streams, and recorded some footage of what appears to be the exit of a train station, a local street, and a laundromat housing a single anonymous figure doing his laundry. I do like the way that the screenshots above invite the viewer to imagine a narrative.