Lighting for the dark room

Due to our film requiring a dark scene without any real lights or surface reflections We've been looking up ways to film in a dark room without loosing quality or contrast of colours and detail of costume etc. Some suggestions We've found is to film in quite a bright room using mainly spotlights and then edit the setting and the lighting in post production, however other suggestions have been to use a low wattage bulb and focus it just on the characters, however this may prove difficult as the lamp/torch would have to be moving, remain out of shot and no visible stream of light should be seen.
We are going to try the lighting techniques to see which will work better without loosing quality in the film.
Dual Stage Lights (Red) this has a nice effect but shows less detail then other lighting and thus would not be a good effect for the film.
Dual Stage Lights (Blue) this has a similar effect to the red lighting but it cooler and shows more detail in the camera.
Singular (mini) Stage Light (Clear) this allows for details in a warm colour, however the lighting does not show up as well as it could on the camera, this could be corrected with a change to the camera settings.

Here are some examples of light sources we are going to make use of in our short film. The stage lights are very useful as they are able to change colour, this can create some very interesting and different visual effects. To fully utilize these lights we are filming in a large pitch black room. The torch will be used by the character to look around and also, the titles and opening credits will be shown in a torch's single beam of light theme. This fits with the setting and plot of the film. The lamp will be used as the main prop on the set. The lamp will be able to increase in brightness. This allows us to create a blinding effect when teaming the brightness of the lamp with the light sensativity of the camera and then the editing effects we are able to utilize after filming.

Whilst practising and experimenting with some lighting techniques and effects in the pitch black room we are going to try and incorporate the use of shadow effects as the light pans accross the set. This we found created a sinister and unsettling environment, maybe adding a bit of horror to our film. We found it very effective so are aiming to include it somehow.