TeamFourStar creates abridged parody videos of anime shows like Dragon Ball Z on YouTube, known for their humorous takes on characters and plots while still following the overall story. Their voice acting and use of sound effects has improved over time. Other creators profiled make "what if" scenario videos that alter anime storylines or produce fantasy audio dramas with impressive sound design to immerse listeners in fictional worlds.

1. Research
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2. Existing Products
• Team Four Star are a group of people on YouTube who makes many types of content to Gaming and Talk shows. But they are
most famous for their Abridged series, which they're voice act certain amines and make it funny and follow up the main plot
but in a really dumb but yet funny way. And their most Popular franchises they abridged was Dragon Ball Z which they
uploaded their first ever episode in June/6/2008 which originally, the episode they re-voiced was the first episode of Dragon
Ball Z where Goku (the main character) meets his Brother Raditz who kidnaps his Son and Goku’s Rival Piccolo comes to
assist Goku to Stop Raditz. However, in the abridged, it shows a humorous side of this story with Goku being the idiotic hero
of the show and everyone else being more normal and more informal. But as the channel grew and became better, the
acting gets really good and becomes more formal but still keeping their characteristics
• The use of sound effects is really impressive because they either get the exact same sound effects from dragon ball z, use
their own sound effects with their editing software's or get them for other franchise. The voice overs in the past was pretty
bad but has shockingly improved a lot now and sounds a lot better, an example of this is when characters are flying in the air,
and they edit the voices of the actors to make them sound like they are far and high in the sky. They also have made their
own music as well to avoid copyright with the help from other groups
• And when they voice act certain characters, they really put a lot of effort of how the characters talk, an example would be
the main character, Goku. In the abridged series, Goku is the main character but also the gag type character of this series
and with his lack of thinking before he acts, and stupidity really gives him this charm in the series that everyone loves.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z95fi3uazYA&list=PL6EC7B047181AD013&index=68
Here’s a good example of how they uses characters (fair warning it does contain swearing)
• The character named Cell has this all-time cocky attitude because he thinks and feels perfect and he's also one of the
strongest characters in the series as well. Whiles the character named Gohan, was a calm, smart and logical character now
has become this built with rage character who tries to defeat Cell with his wording also being upgraded being way more
serious, violent and him becoming even better with his wording to the point it even confuses you on how he speaks
• Personally, when it comes to audiences, it just really depends on what they do for their series and how they uses their sound
effects, music, voice actors and video editing (though not important because this is more focusing on their audio) and it’s
the voice acting and scripting that’s really important because funny and well thought out scripting for characters is what's
key for a good series and it's what makes the audiences want to watch more and more. Sadly, the owners of Dragon Ball Z
have asked them to officially stop making any more abridged series as its pretty much using their work.
Link to the podcast/documentary; https://www.youtube.com/user/teamfourstar

3. Existing Products
Link to the podcast/documentary; https://www.youtube.com/c/SaladSaiyan
• This youtuber named Salad Saiyan makes these series called “What if” which takes an already
existing series like dragon ball z and altering with its story with different scenarios. An
example of this would be If Goku (the main character) was raised by Master Roshi (who he's a
character that trained Goku to surpass his human limits) which Goku was originally raised by
the man named Grandpa Gohan. The point of these what if’s is that the slight change of the
story could change the story completely
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Gbtqc7oWU here's a link to what I was talking about.
• I included this youtuber to my work because whenever he makes a story, its more audio and
him talking with a phew sound effects here and there. E.g. He would tell the story and say
that someone punched someone and then you would hear a punch sound effect the second
he says “punches” or “punch” and the editing skills are pretty good but not outstanding. And
when he explains the story, it's pretty standard but doesn’t need to be hugely dramatic since
he's only reading his idea of the story more than actually acting it but he's quite formal about
it
• I'd say when it comes to audiences, its more about his what ifs than his editing with audio but
at the same time, it's quite a nice thing to watch someone who makes ideas for different
outcomes from your favourite show and that’s how it makes the audiences come back to
watch more (just depends if they like that series that is)

4. • https://www.youtube.com/c/AudioEpics/featured while searching for
existing products, I found this YouTube channel named Audio Epics which
make Fantasy Audio Dramas, so instead of finding creators who make
story's, these people read from their choice, already made and existing
story’s. when I had a listen to one of their story's called “The Will of the
Woods” The story takes place in a world called the Infinite Woods, a place
where the trees never end, inhabited by elves, talking animals and strange
creatures. The sound effects they used were impressive, with its theme
being set in the forest and the sounds of stepping on leaves and hearing
the crunching sounds from the leaves to doors opening and closing and
fire sounds from a roaring campfire.
• I can fully understand if people would come back to listen to more of
these story's because it does sound like there's a story and you can easily
picture the scenery with just sounds alone and with their voice actors
really fitting within the theme of fantasy and mysterious and a mix of
formal and informal characters is also really great to see
Link to the podcast/documentary; https://www.youtube.com/c/AudioEpics/featured
Existing Products

5. Research Analysis
• What common features do the researched products
have? They all use sound effects that are action
sounds, for example, Opening and closing doors,
Punching and kicking, or even siting and breathing.
• What aspects of the research will you include within
your own work? I'll probably included a lot more of
audio epics since my project is going to be an actual
story with a phew bits of details of characters and how
it has a wide range of characters.

6. Audience

7. Audience Profile
Category Demographic Content to appeal to this audience
Age Range
-16+ • The reason to why I put it as 16+ is more mainly
because I would think this age range would
understand my humour when it comes to making
my project and showing it off. And also, it's going
to have a bit of swearing which will also be
censored.
Gender
Males • The reason to why I think more of the male
demographic would watch this, is because it
relates to Dragon Ball Z and other anime that
have this type of story,. Dragon Ball Z cast is also
filled with mostly male characters.
Psychographic
Belongers • I would say that Belongers would enjoy this
product because if he understand this type of
humour that will be shown, they will like it
because its relatable to the trends of most anime
like Dragon Ball Z.
Social Status
Working class • My project will be more like a short audio comedy and if
it was shown to the public, it would probably be on a
YouTube video so it wouldn’t be hard to find, or you
don’t need to like buy a podcasting app to hear my
audios.