Devon Chenoweth is a frequent guest on Random Encounters playing various characters, providing voice work for characters or chorus and assisting behind the scenes with backgrounds, digital props, character art and animation, camera work and lighting.
History[]
Devon met AJ and Peter in a 'random encounter' as they walked in the game store Battlegroundz, where Devon was working at the time. As they were talking and hanging out, Devon was asked if he could help be a character in a musical they were working on, making O Meta Knight the first musical he would appear in, portraying Victim #2
When Random Encounters were developing their collection of short videos, called Encounting, Devon portrayed The Unfathomable Linguine, a wizard demonstrating spells that would have an adverse effect, usually on himself. While two episodes have been filmed, only one was released in episode 5, though clips of the unaired episode were used in a Birthday video that Random Encounters made for Devon.
During one evening, as a joke, many ideas were tossed around for a next musical, one of which taking Phanto, a character from Super Mario Bros. II, and giving him a Phantom of the Opera vibe. Devon decided to take that idea and made a storyboard video and recorded a temp track using the title song, Phantom of the Opera. After showing it to Random Encounters, they like the idea and a few months later, decided to make it an official musical, changing it slightly such as replacing Princess Daisy with Princess Peach, thereby not only making it a sequel to Best We Can Be but also part of the Smash Brotherhood. To avoid copyright issues, AJ reworked the song so as to be original, serving as an homage to the musical it was based off of. While originally thought to be an animated project, ease and time both helped change the idea to make it live action, though character art for the animated version can be found while the original storyboards matched with the temp track is on Random Encounters channel.
Trivia[]
- Devon's previous job, Battlegroundz appears in numerous musicals such as The K. Rool Way, Phanto of the Mushroom Kingdom, Five Nights at Freddy's the Musical: Night 2, The Brony Song and episode 5 of Encounting.
- Through connections with Random Encounters, Devon also teamed up with the YouTube channel, TransfatylvaniaFilms, to provide Backgrounds and props for The Interior Decorating Song 2.
- Two instances of Devon improvising on the spot can be seen while taking the hat off another student in Pokemon University and initiating the wedding of Joker and Harley Quinn as Bane in Arkham Rock Opera. Both went unnoticed until editing.