Pre-Visualization Planning

During our pre production on my groups awesome Bran and Park short I think the pre visualization process has greatly helped us.   I think that having a rough blue print of where we are going to put props and lights will save us a bunch of time when it comes time for shooting.  I think the planning of the lights help dramatically.  It will take less time to set up lights, in that we know where it is going to be.  Also knowing where to set up props will help take less time.  The faster we get set up the faster we can begin shooting.  I think pre visualization is very tedious task, but is really worth it.  This will allow us to get makeup done faster and costuming done faster.