Lockwood Estate (Film Universe)

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Lockwood Estate
Appearances
General information
Status	Abandoned
Location	Northern California

The Lockwood Estate was the home of Benjamin and Maisie Lockwood in Northern California. It was here that Lockwood and John Hammond would extract their first DNA sample from Fossilised Amber paving the way for De-Extinction and Jurassic Park.

It would later become the headquarters of the Lockwood Foundation and be usurped by Eli Mills for his own agenda, including the creation of the Indoraptor and auctioning the surviving animals of the Isla Nublar Crisis to fund further research and development.

History

De-Extinction

Main article: De-Extinction (Film Universe)

Isla Nublar Crisis

Main article: Isla Nublar Crisis (Film Universe)

Layout and Facilities

Estate Library

The Lockwood Estate boasts a two storey private Library with open reading spaces beneath a massive glass skylight. The ground floor level is home to a collection of prehistoric fossils as well as a series of windowed dinosaur dioramas.

Production Notes

Pre-Production

In winter 2016, plate shots for the environment that would become the Lockwood Estate were taken at Cragside in Rothbury, UK. Whilst scouting the location, Clear Angle Studios scanned the entirety of the manor to use as a base for the CG model of the Lockwood Estate. Visual Effects Supervisor David Vickery and Director of Photography Oscar Faura captured establishing shots of the area using an Alexa Mini mounted to a drone.

"We spent two days shooting the manor from every angle," recalled Vickery. "We shot hours of footage, and then set up base in a pub, and re-encode all the Alexa Mini footage into Quicktimes so we could send them down to J.A. in London. Later, he called us, and said, 'This is amazing - You've got to do more!'"

— David Vickery, Cinefex

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Production

Once filming was complete in the Library set, it was heavily modified to be reused as the ballroom/auction hall. The balcony was removed, the ceiling was filled in and the dioramas were tiled over. A concrete plinth with rails was then constructed to transport the auction animals and their cages in and out.

Filming Locations

Set No.	Int./Ext.	Name	Location	Description
218	Int.	Maisie's Bedroom	M Stage at Pinewood Studios	A small set used to represent the interior and partial exterior of Maisie Lockwood's accommodation at the Lockwood Estate.
280	Int.	Lockwood Library	R Stage at Pinewood Studios	A large set used to represent the Entrance Hall, Library and Ballroom of the Lockwood Estate.
	Int.	Lockwood Estate Long Hallway	Unknown Stage at Pinewood Studios
	Int.	Lockwood's Bedroom	F Stage at Pinewood Studios	A medium set used to represent the accommodation of Benjamin Lockwood and office of Eli Mills at the Lockwood Estate.
	Ext.	Lockwood Rooftops	Richard Attenborough Stage at Pinewood Studios	A large set used to represent the exterior rooftops of the Lockwood Estate.
	Ext.	Lockwood Estate Entrance and Driveway	Hawley Common	A large location used to represent the exterior entrance and driveway of the Lockwood Estate.
	Ext.	Lockwood Estate Dock	Glen Mallan, Argyll & Bute, Scotland	A large location used to represent the private docks at the Lockwood Estate.
	Ext.	Lockwood Estate	Cragside, UK.	A large location used for plate photography to represent the exterior of the Lockwood Estate.

Post Production

The CG exteriors of the Lockwood Estate were modelled and composited by Spanish effects house El Ranchito.

Trivia and Goofs

• The sets built and CG model of the estate do not match up correctly in a number of instance. On the physical set the library is located to the right of the entrance hall, but on the CG model is it straight behind it. The circle window above the front doors of the manor is recessed away from the doors, however on the CG model it is flush with it.
• In the scene where Maisie sneaks into Wu's lab, she clearly presses the last button on the panel for -3, however when the doors open there is still another level below her.

External Links

• National Trust site for Cragside