In the book, the description of the fight between the Huns and the defenders of Pndapetzim is fun. However, there isn’t much description of the landscape and where the fight happens. In the movie, the Huns are Magogs and the defenders are the “creatures” led by the pilgrims. To describe the fight and its timing, I had to establish the shooting locations and their relative position. The only way to do that was by sketching a map with the Smoky mountains in the North (i.e. where the Magogs are coming from), the lake where the love story between Baudolino and Hypatia develops, the Fern valley where the Magogs and “creatures” fight, the Hopes Hill observation post, from which the pilgrims observe the fight etc.
While describing the fight scenes, I realized that I have to go back to some of the previous ones, to add bits of sequences, dialogue or objects; those were my foreshadowing script elements.