Rejected Versions of my Final product

These are disregarded drafts for my final piece/ front cover for my product. I disregarded them at these stages because i felt that the key signifying image was not strong enough and would not be as attractive to my target audience as they did not have the connotations that my target audience would be able to identify with. I felt that the fist one with the use of the close up shot was too intent on using direct address to involve the audience in my product and this would actually scare them away, and then in my second one i experimented with using indirect address and i feel that this looked immature and was not a powerful image to attract my target audiences attention.