Little Miss Sunshine

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This film is a combination of comedy and drama genre. It is about a family who encountered challenges along the way, riding in a vintage VW van from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach as the youngest member of the family wanted to join Miss Little Sunshine pageant.

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Mise-en-scene is also presented in the film. At first, the set design focused on their house, but the most of the scene where the family's journey encountered such challenges, were shot on the road in a concrete landscape of Southern California.

The lighting of the film really sets the mood and the atmosphere of each scene in the film. The yellow light or the sunny light of the film symbolizes the hopes of the entire Hoover family and the dream of the little girl-Olive Hoover, the aspiring beauty queen.

Most of the space used in the film was on the road where an extreme wide shot focused on the concrete landscape of Southern California.

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The costumes were also perfectly fit for the character's personality. As the youngest member of the family-Olive Hoover, a chubby and cute little girl wears fitted clothes which emphasizes her big tummy. Her dad Richard the perfectionist, but an unsuccessful motivational speaker wears formal polo shirts. Her mom Sheryl, who has been very patient with them and always value time for her family just to make them always be together and she wears ordinary blouses and pants. Olive's brother Dwayne, who has taken the vow of silence, believing to grant his wish by making it to the flight school, who always wears simple T-shirt and jeans. Olive's grandpa has been her coach in her dance routine who usually wears with a simple t-shirt with a vest. Lastly, her uncle Frank who used to attempt suicide always wears a white polo shirt, as he mourns for his love of the guy he loves who dumped him.

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The makeups and the hairstyle especially of young Olive where simple but cute. Though in the beauty pageant, she was the only contestant who doesn't wear heavy make up but still her beauty and hair really stands-out.

Also, the acting and the blocking of the film were also impressive, that one who watch the film will be satisfied and may get insightful learning about what the film wants to communicate to its viewers.