This shot is a close up of a frightened character. Hitchcock creates suspense as he makes the character talk directly to the camera suggesting that she is making contact with the audience of the film. However she is talking to a character and this makes the audience want to know who she is talking to and how the character is the cause of all the tragedies. This is a point of view shot in the eyes of the character responsible for all the hell broken looseThis scene is important as suspense is continuously built by the way that Hitchcock continues piling suspense. When the female character enters the house she has to go through various obstacles before eventually finding the body. Hitchcock shows her entering the house, going into the kitchen, walking along the corridor, looking at her surroundings eventually seeing the feet of the body and then working her way to the head. The shot used to portray the body was a sudden full shot automatically leading to a mid shot and then an immediate close up of the scratch face, this is truly genius as this is not a zoom but merely a series of distances between shots which increase the suspense as this helps us focus on the body