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A class of Carleton journalism students have created a multimedia tribute to the victims, survivors and first-responders of the 2013 Barrhaven train-bus collision.
The ‘Crossroads’ project combines photos, text, sketches and video to tell the story of that fateful day. The experience was a powerful one for the young journalists involved.
Fourth-year Carleton University journalism student Bethany Rubin said she was overwhelmed with emotion when she interviewed the friends of a man killed when an OC Transpo bus crashed into a Via Rail train.
“I just had to keep telling me myself to stay strong so they stay strong,” Rubin said. “It’s just heartbreaking hearing them and seeing the look in their eyes. Seeing that emotion first hand was really difficult.”
Rubin’s emotional interview about Kyle Nash, 21, with Carleton University students Andrew Richardson and Hannes Steyn was part of a summer course involving the collaboration of students in both the journalism and multimedia and design courses.
Rubin and her group started their multimedia project as a story about transit issues, but it soon evolved into the account of the bus crash and its aftermath. The goal was to tell the story in an interactive way that hadn’t been done before by using video, graphics, photos and sketches, said Kanina Holmes, the journalism professor who taught the course.
“They went from nothing to finding a story to then executing it in a way that they had never done before. It was quite a journey,” Holmes said. “They blew me away with their determination and their passion for this piece.”
Rubin worked with five other students to produce a 5,000-word interactive story they called Crossroads to document how life change for those involved in the crash or touched by the tragedy.
Sitting on a desk in the classroom where Richardson and Steyn first met Nash, Rubin interviewed the pair about how they waited for their friend to arrive at an information multimedia design class on Sept. 18, 2013.
When the pair still hadn’t heard from Nash by 10 p.m. that night, they feared he was one of the six people killed in the horrific crash on route 76. The next day, their fears were confirmed when the names of the six victims — Kyle Nash, Connor Boyd, Karen Krzyzewski, Rob More, Michael Bleakney and driver Dave Woodard — were released.
Those who survived the crash were left with a lasting memory of the carnage they witnessed that day.
Romi Gupta, 40, told Rubin that she will never forget the man in the yellow jacket. Moments before he was killed, Bleakney, 57, switched spots with her on the crowded bus so he could be closer to his bike.
Gupta distinctly remembered how quiet it seemed immediately following the crash before passengers began to scream and police, paramedics and firefighters arrived to the scene of the horrific crash.
“The fact that she switched spots with Michael Bleakney was chilling, but it gave her such a new appreciation toward life,” Rubin said. “It’s a horrible tragedy that happened, but she’s looking at it in a positive way.”
Ottawa police Const. Mark Tereschuk told Rubin in an interview at the police station in Kanata that he was one of the first to respond to the crash. Rubin said she was shocked to see how emotional Tereschuk was when he recounted the chaos on the scene that day.
“Even though he wasn’t directly involved in the collision, he wasn’t on the bus, what he saw that day still came back to him,” Rubin said. “You don’t think it would affect a police officer in that way.”
Rubin said she didn’t talk to the crash survivors in great detail about what caused the crash since the Transportation Safety Board of Canada continues its investigation.
To view the Carleton University multimedia project, visit http://www.crossroadsottawa.com/
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
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The ‘Crossroads’ project combines photos, text, sketches and video to tell the story of that fateful day. The experience was a powerful one for the young journalists involved.
Fourth-year Carleton University journalism student Bethany Rubin said she was overwhelmed with emotion when she interviewed the friends of a man killed when an OC Transpo bus crashed into a Via Rail train.
“I just had to keep telling me myself to stay strong so they stay strong,” Rubin said. “It’s just heartbreaking hearing them and seeing the look in their eyes. Seeing that emotion first hand was really difficult.”
Rubin’s emotional interview about Kyle Nash, 21, with Carleton University students Andrew Richardson and Hannes Steyn was part of a summer course involving the collaboration of students in both the journalism and multimedia and design courses.
Rubin and her group started their multimedia project as a story about transit issues, but it soon evolved into the account of the bus crash and its aftermath. The goal was to tell the story in an interactive way that hadn’t been done before by using video, graphics, photos and sketches, said Kanina Holmes, the journalism professor who taught the course.
“They went from nothing to finding a story to then executing it in a way that they had never done before. It was quite a journey,” Holmes said. “They blew me away with their determination and their passion for this piece.”
Rubin worked with five other students to produce a 5,000-word interactive story they called Crossroads to document how life change for those involved in the crash or touched by the tragedy.
Sitting on a desk in the classroom where Richardson and Steyn first met Nash, Rubin interviewed the pair about how they waited for their friend to arrive at an information multimedia design class on Sept. 18, 2013.
When the pair still hadn’t heard from Nash by 10 p.m. that night, they feared he was one of the six people killed in the horrific crash on route 76. The next day, their fears were confirmed when the names of the six victims — Kyle Nash, Connor Boyd, Karen Krzyzewski, Rob More, Michael Bleakney and driver Dave Woodard — were released.
Those who survived the crash were left with a lasting memory of the carnage they witnessed that day.
Romi Gupta, 40, told Rubin that she will never forget the man in the yellow jacket. Moments before he was killed, Bleakney, 57, switched spots with her on the crowded bus so he could be closer to his bike.
Gupta distinctly remembered how quiet it seemed immediately following the crash before passengers began to scream and police, paramedics and firefighters arrived to the scene of the horrific crash.
“The fact that she switched spots with Michael Bleakney was chilling, but it gave her such a new appreciation toward life,” Rubin said. “It’s a horrible tragedy that happened, but she’s looking at it in a positive way.”
Ottawa police Const. Mark Tereschuk told Rubin in an interview at the police station in Kanata that he was one of the first to respond to the crash. Rubin said she was shocked to see how emotional Tereschuk was when he recounted the chaos on the scene that day.
“Even though he wasn’t directly involved in the collision, he wasn’t on the bus, what he saw that day still came back to him,” Rubin said. “You don’t think it would affect a police officer in that way.”
Rubin said she didn’t talk to the crash survivors in great detail about what caused the crash since the Transportation Safety Board of Canada continues its investigation.
To view the Carleton University multimedia project, visit http://www.crossroadsottawa.com/
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
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