(00:45) “We had a location person that scouted all the way from the Bahamas to Puerto Rica in South America to find the right look of the film.”
According to the above sentence, to scout means
to examine or observe (anything) in order to obtain information
to shoot
(00:56) “It’s amazing when you scout a film like this that you realize that the world is, you know, insanely overpopulated.”
According to the above sentence, insanely means
mentally ill
extremely
(00:56) “It’s amazing when you scout a film like this that you realize that the world is, you know, insanely overpopulated. You just go out looking for a cul-de-sac shaped bay to find one that doesn’t have a hotel – they just don’t exist.”
According to the above sentence, a cul-de-sac is
a dead-end street / closed at one end
an clean street
(01:16) “We picked St Vincent because it didn’t have much. You know it had a pier in the water. We extended that one pier then we build a couple of other piers. And then we augmented a couple of other existing buildings.”
According to the above sentence, to augment means
to enlarge/increase
to demolish/remove
(01:26) “And then we augmented a couple of other existing buildings, we added that to the town so it looks like our Universal backlot.”
According to the video, a backlot is:
an area outside a film or television studio used for outdoor filming;
a dark area near a film or television studio used for outdoor filming.
(01:37) “It was a huge challenge. We had to call upon some of the neighbouring islands to help support this size of movie we had. The airport only handled small planes, so we chartered a 747 [which] flew to St Lucia and then brought everybody over by boat.”
According to the above sentence, to charter means
to bank
to employ/ to rent
(02:20) “as soon as you start shooting in the morning, you are 4 miles out and suddenly there is this armada behind trying to catch up, chasing you just with sandwiches.”