Flat plan-final product

Here you can see there is a huge difference between my initial flat plans and my final product and this is due to many reasons. The differences are mostly between my front cover and double page spread, my contents page is similar, just flipped with a little extra added in.
I decided to change my final product as i believe this made it look a lot more professional as my flat plan seemed to look too too spread out resulting in too much dead space on the page. It also looked very messy and untidy so i decided to create a simpler, but over all more effective front cover. The same goes for my double page spread, but this time the flat plan seemed to be too crowed, messy and cluttered having images and text pretty much in random places dotted around the page, so i decided to split the page in 2, giving my main artist half the page for an image so the reader could clearly see him, his look and emotion, while also allowing easier reading and a better looking piece all around.