Wow! Thank you all for your great advice.
I am a student yes and I've already asked my university for light equipment and they've declined. They're extremely cautious of their kit, especially now since some idiot on my course just broke a 50 grand, brand new HD camera.
I actually don't have a light meter either, however my light is extremely bright, as I said it lights up the whole entire room leaving little dark spots. With that on full beam, I think it would be too intense. However using reflectors and bouncing off the light source into different areas sounds like a fantastic idea. I had plan on using aluminum foil to help me do this.
My camera is the basic of basics Super 8 camera. You cannot change anything unfortunently except the focusing! Oh and the zoom, that's it. Everything else is built it and automatic, f-stops etc. I can't even see all of my f-stops! All I can see on the camera is 2.8 and 5.6 and I just pray when I'm shooting it's as close to those as possible! But that's what I dont want to do, I dont want to have to pray to get it right, because I want to get it right. And actually with all your replies to my question, it's actually helped me understand what I need to do in order to get the scene that I want.
I've just remembered that I do in fact own two industrial light heads which are on stands, not sure of the wattage, but they're meant for workers at night, to see what they're doing. So I'm sure I could use that in some way, maybe spotting the light, using it as a back drop or bouncing it off reflectors.
No idea if you've heard of this little trick, you probably have but a car sunscreen protector is also really good for a reflector. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3636/341784..._51c751ea21.jpg
Anyways thank you for you replies! Really, really helpful!