scary ghost!

i wanted to try something a little scarier than usual - i wanted to take a 2d image and make it into some sort of phantom type thing... i sat at mcdonald's and tried to plan out how i would do it in my head - i tried a couple different combinations of effects but finally came up with this one... next i am going to try and figure out how to get a face inside of water/smoke/sand or something like that - water would be cool. it kinda bites though because i don't have any footage nor do i have the money to buy a video camera (or stock footage for that matter) to actually create movie compositions so i stick with free images and whatnot to get the process down and i suppose later on i can apply the same things that i'm learning with images over to movies - seriously though, how cool would this ghost dude look if it was actually a full body kinda walking through the air with a screwed up frame rate so it looked all choppy? cool. that's how it would look.