Going over each and every point of reference in this article would be tedious, to say the least. The most sound method was to refer to specific dialogue or plot elements for clues, then fall back on features of the landscape, and then finally determine any other elements to come to a conclusion. In situations where that did not provide enough of a framework, such as the exact location of the trailers, logic and deductive reasoning were required in order to eliminate other potential locations.
We were required to look at dialogue exchange and the physical features of the island as a primary source. There was no existing map to draw reference from, and so any clue as to the location of, say, the high hide was hidden within the film.
Work on actual locations could now finally begin.ĭetermining the specific locations for various events was a complicated task. We created a large topographical map of the entire Las Cinco Muertes island chain and created a map scale from there (at our scale 116 pixels per mile). Costa Rica appears on this map as well, and sizing it appropriately allowed us to determine the size of Sorna. So our topography was established now we had to determine the size of the island. Las Cinco Muertas, The Lost World: Jurassic Park The topography is clear, the map is given a central focus in the film (even if only for a few seconds), and within the film universe itself it appears to be a detailed map of the variety you would find pinned in a government building. Which of these many maps should be used as the de facto topography for our map? Should we rule out every other map or attempt to merge all the maps together? Should one map be considered more likely to be “accurate” than all the others?Īfter a lot of deliberation it was agreed that the map seen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park during Kelly’s wandering of the trailers (below) was the most accurate for our purposes. It seems the production team for the films did not have any sort of concrete map or topography from which they were working from. However, none of the maps work together, and topography varies from one map to another. One would therefore think that it would be a simple thing to create a map corresponding to the films’ events. Numerous maps of Isla Sorna exist, both in-film props and real world publicity items.
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