Through the coursework components - the Foundation Portfolio for AS Level and the Advanced Portfolio for A Level - they create their own media products from planning through to execution. Learners also consider and analyse examples from existing media, examining production processes and technologies and the effects they achieve. Media studies can be useful in a range of careers including marketing, sales and advertising, broadcast media and performing arts, journalist and publishing, and leisure sport and tourism. The nature of Media Studies means that students are introduced to a very broad range of ideas. AQA A-Level Media Studies is taught within the two-year A-Level programme. a vast and eclectic subject area which includes studying media disciplines ranging from hundreds of years ago to the ultra-contemporary sub-sectors There is an in-depth study of how news is presented, looking at print media as well as the increasing influence of online sources of news (both official and unofficial).