Common Features of Music Videos from Independent Artists

Most Indie bands/artists seem to follow a certain common feature in their videos from several different aspects, or sub-categories. I created a one-page slide on 'Photovisi', where I included these features. They were:

Subliminal Messages
The hidden meanings, euphemisms and semantics in the video. Can be quite hard to notice.


Costume & Make-up
Alternative costumes, that seem to have a sort of 70's, hippy vibe, but not all Indie videos have this.

Hairstyles
More diverse than normal if presented as a ratio. These normally detach the Indie genre from all the other glamorous, tiring hairstyles of the mainstream music artists. This is what defines Independent music as its own style.

Locations
Regularly fields, forests, villages, locales, or anything that is either outside in the country (or a countryside feel), or in a local place.

Regionality (of the artists)
Instead of being just one nationality, Independent artists are very widespread in terms of their regionality. Wales, Iceland etc.


Imagery
Regularly surreal imagery to help with the allegorical aspects of the music videos.