How do these distort or comment on the photographed materials?

Common lenses and stocks:

• Telephoto lens--A lens that draws objects closer but also diminishes the illusion of depth.
• Wide-angle lens--A lens that takes in a broad area and increases the illusion of depth but sometimes distorts the edges of the image.
• Fast film stock--highly sensitive to light, it can register an image with little illumination. However, the final product tends to be grainy.
• Slow film stock--relatively insensitive to light, it requires a great deal of illumination. The final product tends to look polished.

Ghost World (2001)

The lens is not wide-angle because there isn't a great sense of depth, nor are several planes in focus. The lens is probably long but not necessarily a telephoto lens because the depth isn't inordinately compressed.

The stock is slow because of the high quality of the image.

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