How to make a scene slightly smoky?

Hi,
I want to make an MTV style clip whereby it always looks slightly smoky or foggy. What do I need to do?
I also realise that movies are not as sharp as when we what we always have taken usin 3ccd. 3ccd is too sharp. How to create that slightly softer effect like the movies?

a) poor man's fog:
add a second layer of grey, set transparency to 5 - 50% ...
b) no so poor man's fog:
get recordings of fog/clouds/animated "grey matter", add on second layer, set transparency to 5 - 50%
c) very rich man's fog:
recreate scenery in a 3Dapp, import motions trackings, let fog-particle interact with moving objects in scenery, ....
.. because: a real fog has a "perspective", means the blurr gets more and more intense as much as the object is in distance to camera.. VERY difficult to emulate in postproduction..
for movie-look, google for "movie-look" ... ;); there are some poor man's advices (deinterlace, double track, blurr track 2, set transparency to ??%), up to REALLY expensive plug-ins ...
hopefully Tom will join, ... he has for sure some great advice... and links ...

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