In one of the other threads it seemed like making a particular city your setting was pretty common for romantic comedy. I'm trying to set mine in a college campus (mid-tier private college) and wondering what other people are thinking about.

Also, does anyone know of a romantic comedy or (at this point) honestly any good movies set on a college campus that are based around college *students*? I'm trying to get a sense of what's been done before (though perhaps the answer is staring me in the face: not much)

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My story is more of an action movie with romance, but I've got it set in an Albuquerque suburb in New Mexico.

You're right, there is a serious dearth of good college-student movies. Plenty of TV shows set in high school/college, but not so many movies.

See Girl Write: the life of a college writer, trying not to flunk out.

My characters are all college students, though most of the script is going to take place on a road trip instead of on campus. They're college students mainly because I really have no idea what it's like to live in a city (like rom-com characters are supposed to), and I can't make myself write believable characters if they're not based on me.

Heh, I have that basing characters off myself thing too. It gets really sticky if you end up accidentally basing them off of friends. I'm going for a campus setting though, which is the main reason I'm trying to grab movies set there. I'm not quite sure how to navigate the sort of seasons of life on a campus and how much you need to explain about the place they're at. Ah well, I guess this is what screnzy is for, making us write through all this...

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I'm taking writer's liberty here, and sort of aiming for a modern-day royal setting, I liked the 'world' in the disney's Princess Diaries, so I'm using the same sort of setting, an actual castle, a faraway 'land' and of course, all the different important people. It's crazy, but fun. ^_^

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Almost all my boys (they’re all mainly boys with a couple of exceptions since I’m going for the QAF type things but compressed) are in college too. But since it’s all set in Moscow and they’re of the upper-class sort they’re all living in apartments throughout the city rather than in the dorms.