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The audio-visual relations in Hitchock’s Psycho are very complex and telling throughout his film. For the first 40 minutes, the film is used to slowly bring the audience into the world of their soon to be protagonist, Marion. This is achieved mostly through POV shots along with internal and external-diegetic sound, and non-diegetic sound. To further discuss this concept, the famous shower scene will be broken down to illustrate how Hitchock brilliantly uses this method of storytelling through audio and visual techniques. At this point of the story the audience have become the eyes and ears of Marion and have learned that she is going to return the money the next day. She flushes