As an assignment for my New Media Narrative class, I had to make a movie poster for a film of my choice. I chose Don’t Worry Darling (2022) because I love the plot of a woman realizing her autonomy has been taken away and trying to get it back in a community that continuously gaslights and silences her. Martini glasses were seen throughout the film as a sign of excessive drinking and partying, so I combined it with the iconic scene of the female protagonist sitting in a bathtub to create this illustration of an identity-less figure looking like an olive in a martini drink. The drink also looks like blood, another symbol seen throughout the film. I added the silhouettes of several significant objects from the film that represent the conflict between freedom vs conformity such as the trolley and plane. I used colors from the film’s color palette and fonts reminiscent of the 1950’s time period that it seems to take place in. I made the silhouettes a shade darker than the background color so that they would look like shadows and wouldn’t be easily seen, following another theme from the film of hidden messages, both literally and figuratively. The ripples in the liquid also look like a woman wearing a hat, similar to how the women in the film were often lounging wearing wide-brimmed hats. Creating this movie poster in Adobe’s Illustrator, I improved my skills using the bezier tool to create outlines, manipulating shapes and paths, and managing layers.