Lady Gaga - Applause (lighting)

Although none of the Lady Gaga songs match the genre in which I am using for my music video, I am fascinated by the aspect of lighting within her videos, especially this music video for the song 'Applause'. My main interest being in the black and white parts of her music video, where the background is completely black yet she is still shown in clear view, without any of the lighting affecting her features, or blocking out some of the visuals when it comes to her movements. Although some of these effects will need special equipment which I cannot afford, I would love to experiment with a cheaper kind of feature, when it comes to filming the original video. As when it comes to filming the video in black and white, it may have a better effect than filming the video in colour - or at least for a majority of the video. As some parts could feature colour, just as the above Lady Gaga video also does.