My initial intentions with sound effects were to use many small sound effects of conscious creatures. During the composition of my track I tested using many sound effects and it sounded over the top, I think only using a few is more tasteful and gives more focus to the ones used, this will make the listener think more about the sound effects used.
The sound effects I used of conscious creatures were predominantly from the 70s, the era my parents grew up in. I used the two sounds of animals and one of some glass breaking which was not the sound of a living creature, I decided to use the glass breaking sound because of my work on the radio unit I did earlier in the year, Ben Burtt picks out sound effects in an instinctive manner and I decided to do the same with this sound effect. I also ended up using one continuous field recording of school children playing for the whole track, this gives the whole track more continuity and identity.