source material
Basis for adaptation
Source material is the original content from which something else is derived or adapted.
A novel serves as source material for a film; historical documents are source material for a biography.
In academic and creative work, returning to source material means consulting primary texts rather than secondhand accounts: The historian worked exclusively from source material in the archives.
- transcriptVerbatim written account
- diaryPersonal daily record
- personal correspondenceDirect written communication between individuals
- documentWritten or electronic file
- folktaleTraditional narrative passed down
dataset · field notes · court records · historical document · novel · comic book · oral history · letter · screenplay · news article · artifact · myth · eyewitness account · witness testimony · provenance · film adaptation · firsthand · sketch
- originalsoriginal, authentic, genuine, prototype, archetype
- scholarly sourcesjournal article, scholarly article, scholarly journal, research paper, dissertation
- YTPpooper
- film remakesremake, reboot, adaptation, reimagining, retelling
- adaptationsfilm adaptation, film adaptations, movie adaptation, TV adaptation, TV adaptations
- literary contextsetting, time period, historical background, cultural milieu, political climate
source materialderivative work
Creation based on another
adaptation · interpretation · remake · retelling · translation
source materialfinal product
Completed output ready for use
end product · output · deliverable · production · result