Mapping the plot

I had the majority of the idea of what would happen in my head. I knew I had to physically plan out what would happen however to stop me getting confused later and to make sure I hadn't missed anything out and knew how everything would develop. I tried more or less writing out a script but didn't get far before I found the process tiresome and tedious. I decided that I would be better suited to visually mapping the plot in a kind of storyboard/ rough comic way. I found this much simpler and enjoyable and even though I didn't map out the entire story I did get as far as the finishing the first scene of the second act in the play.
Visually mapping the plot helped me immensely as it cleared my head in regards to a lot of issues I was having with this project. The first of these was tone. When I came up with the concept for a modern interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream I envisioned a dark tone. One that started a little dark and just got darker throughout. When I tried to make the story fit around this tone however, I couldn't figure out how to make it work without it becoming, well kind of lame. When mapping out the plot I forgot about the tone a bit and got the plot points and jist of the dialogue down. Doing this I realised the dark tone would work well if just used it for the fairies parts of the play/ the parts that take part in a certain part of the city, the bad part. The rest of the story would have a more normal tone.
This changes the city I was planning to set the story in. It no longer needs to be rough and decaying and full of dark corners all over the place, now it only needs to be certain parts of the setting. I think the rest of the city should be relatively normal in comparison, although a bit crap overall still.
During this process and the change of tone idea I also figured out exactly what the fairies role was in this new narrative. I figured that the story and tone would work best if the fairies were essentially the mafia, a more bohemian laid back mafia but just as dangerous and illegal. Oberon's fairies and Titania's are like two Families at war.
The main benefit to visually figuring out the story was that I could find areas that held the greatest visual interest to me. This gave me something to artistically focus on while I figure out what I'm going to do with this project.