The residents of Mega City One live in towers, known as City Blocks, which each hold approximately 50,000 people. There tend to be rivalries between each of these different blocks, which is documented most notably in “Block Mania”.

There are robots that live and work in the city, that appear to have their own personalities, and speak in English. These robots were original appreciated for the work they did, but after many years of people being out of work, bordem and frustration led to the creation of Aggro Domes. These domes were created as a way for people to let out their frustration without harming other citizens, and so instead the robots became the target of their anger. The domes were closed around 2021, due to a lack of visitors, but the bitterness and division that was created between the humans and their robotic counterparts remains to this day. Circa 2030, thirty City Blocks turned out to be giant robots, which increased the hostility, as well as the conflict within Mega City One.

 

- Judge Dredd Wikia (2015), Judge Dredd Wiki (online), available: http://judgedredd.wikia.com/wiki/Mega-City_One [accessed: 15 October 2015]

- Wagner, J. et all (2015) Judge Dredd the Mega Collection - Total War, Oxford, UK: Rebellion Publishing

- Safron, J. (n.d.) Writings in 2000AD - The British sci-fi comic anthology (online), available: https://books.google.ie/books?id=6XWSCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=dredd&f=false [accessed 17 October 2015

Broadway: Metallic, vast, over-crowded, dense, loud, bustling, dense

Back-Street: Sinister, gritty, run down, dirty

SuperSlab: heavy, imposing, formidable, overhead, 

Under the SuperSlab: Trapped in, echoy, under-groud

Motorcycle: Mechanical, growl/roar, heavy, powerfull, dirty, gritty

 

- Objects

    Motorcycle

    SuperSlab
- Actions
    Driving the motorcycle

- Environments

    Broad-Way

    Back-Street

    MegWay

    Under MegWay

- Emotions

    Broad-Way: Confused by the amount of activity going on around them

    Back-Street: Un-nerved / On edge

    MegWay: Small in comparison to the SuperSlab overhead
- Transitions

    Travelling through Broadway

    Turning onto Back-Street from Broadway

    Passing under SuperSlab

    Leaving the city behind

 

Keynote Sounds - Sounds that identify the key of a piece

- Scene 1 | Broad-Way

     Traffic Passing

- Scene 2 | Back-Street

     Distant Howling

- Scene 3 | Under SuperSlab

     Traffic Over Head

 

Sound Signals - Foreground sounds, which are listened to consciously
- Scene 1 | Broad-Way
     Sirens Passing
- Scene 2 | Back-Street
     Unnerving background
- Scene 3 | Under SuperSlab
     Motorcycle coming to a stop abruptly

 

Soundmarks - A sound which is unique to an area
- Scene 1 | Broad-Way
     Hover Vechicles
- Scene 2 | Back-Street
     Distant Howling
- Scene 3 | Under SuperSlab
     Heavy Speeding Vehicles overhead

 

- Scene 1 | Broad-Way

    Voice: crowd chatter from the street

    FX: Motorcycle, hover cars and traffic passing

    Music: none

    Ambience: over-crowded street, dense city

- Scene 2 | Back-Street
    Voice: more aggressive sounding crowd chatter
    FX: Motorcycle, sirens
    Music: suspense
    Ambience: over-crowded run-down street with potholes

- Scene 3 | Under SuperSlab

    Voice: none
    FX: Motorcycle, variety of vehicles overhead
    Music: none
    Ambience: thundery vehicles passing overhead

 

- The software I will be using to create this soundscape will be Reaper and Audacity

- Plugins: I have decided to create my soundscape primarily using synthesisers. If I do end up using samples, they will only be for the purpose of shaping these synths, as opposed to being distinct sounds themselves