Advice for creating a ghostly video filler

Hi all,
I have just been approached by some of my lecturers who would like me to create a ghostly video filler. Essentially, they are looking for something that is about 10 seconds long, which will smoothly loop, with a ghostly theme.
I personally, am intending to try and create this within 3D space in motion, not got many ideas yet, but a ghostly green hue across the whole thing, some wispy smoke etc. then create several that I will be able to call on during the event, for instance one with text that I can edit quickly, re-render and push onto the projection if needed etc.
So, given that I am a motion rookie, with some minimal experience, I was wondering if anyone would be able to provide some advice in how to go about creating something like this. I've got access to motion for a couple of days before I head home for the holidays, and then for a week or two when I get back in January.
Thanks,
James

Well, the brief is something smoky and eerie! As usual, an extremely helpful brief . . .
I was playing around earlier with images and blending modes, essentially making it so that the image was only visible while the smoke was over it, so that's something I'm going to use, somehow, I may look at using it for the text idea.
Other than that, I might try and get some stock footage to work with in January, as we have a green screen studio on one of our campuses, try and get some of the acting bods to do something for me! Again, I would probably look into blending modes for that. But until I come up with a firm direction of where I want to go, I guess all I'm looking for is things people have tried that might work in this case.
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