Rob is the one contact I brought to set. A writer and producer himself, I thought it would be helpful to have him on set. And to have an AD I know and trust would be helpful. But I didn’t get Rob as my AD the whole time because he also got to be boom op and a handful of other things. Rob also contributed one of the best time-saving ideas on set.
First let me say that Rob and I have been friends for years and we’ve always show each other our scripts. I know Rob’s a good writer so I trust his opinions. So when we were into our very daunting final day of shooting and still had a location change to do, Rob suggested a new way to do the scene that would allow us to use the same location. It was brilliant! He pointed out that we were going to have to do a ton of work for what amounted to 3 lines and a mediocre joke. Solved! And because of that we wrapped 20 minutes early.
Aside from that Rob was up for anything - whatever needed to be done and I can’t thank him enough.